The World I Left Behind: Pieces of a Past
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ISBN: 0679439110 / Publisher: Random House, July 1995
The memoirs of Leonid Brezhnev's niece Luba describe her arrival in Moscow, witness to political corruption, and outspoken ways that led to her college expulsion and beating by KGB officers
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The family was the Brezhnevs, and the author is Luba Brezhneva, niece of the man who led the Soviet Union for eighteen years - but who, in the end, could not protect her.These are the touching and terrifying revelations of a child of both privilege and persecution. The story is of her transformation from a provincial schoolgirl into an outspoken young woman who moved among, and then rebelled against, the elite of Moscow.
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