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Born in 1910 to a poor, Jewish family outside of Kiev, Lola lived through the Bolshevik revolution, a horrifying civil war, Stalinist purges, and the Holocaust. She taught herself to read, and supported her extended family working as a secretary for the notorious NKVD (which became the KGB) and later as a lieutenant for the Red Army. Her family, including 4-year-old Yulia, moved to the U.S. in the wake of Chernobyl and forged a new life.<br /><br /><b> <i>Soviet Daughter</i> </b> united two generations of strong, independent women against a sweeping backdrop of the history of the USSR. Like Sarah Glidden in <i> <b>How to Understand Israel in 60 Days or Less</b> </i>, or Marjane Satrapi in <b> <i>Persepolis</i> </b>, Alekseyeva deftly combines compelling stories of women finding their way in the world with an examination o the ties we all have with out families, ethnicities, and the still-fresh traumas of the 20th century.