{"product_id":"9781803996691","title":"Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer : One Woman’s Private Diary from 1930s Soviet Russia by Hyrske, Anna","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor:  Hyrske, Anna \u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFinland\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 10 October 2024 by The History Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 2 Maps; 13 Illustrations, black and white\u003cbr\u003e234 x 156 | 0g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally published in 1942, as war still raged between Finland and Soviet Union. Its writer was a Finnish woman who emigrated to Russia in the 1930s, convinced the new egalitarian state and workers’ paradise would be a better life for her and her young son, hopeful once settled she could send for him. What followed was very different to what was promised: a life in constant fear, under intense government scrutiny, of purges and Great Wraths, good people imprisoned and shot; and state-run propaganda that spun a web of lies around its people. The author eventually escaped, defying the odds when so many of her friends and loved ones did not, and recorded her memories under a pseudonym in what became the second most censored book from Finnish libraries after the war. This is the first English translation of this important memoir, whose original preface states: ‘I simply want to provide an honest account of what my friends and I had to live through under the “Stalinist sun”.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48584857354433,"sku":"9781803996691","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9781803996691.jpg?v=1770198023","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/es\/products\/9781803996691","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}