![]() ![]() A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a young Soviet girl's discovery of the hidden truths of adulthood and her country's profound political deception. Urn:lcp:mountainofcrumbs00elen:epub:ef1e494e-da8d-4d88-8509-440e262200a1 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier mountainofcrumbs00elen Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t3gx78t2z Invoice 11 Isbn 9781439125670ġ439125678 Lccn 2009000474 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.20 Ocr_module_version 0.0.17 Openlibrary_edition Elena Gorokhova grows up in 1960's Leningrad, where she discovers that beauty and passion can be found in unexpected places in Soviet Russia. 1929-1933 When Stalin purged all of the wealthy peasants and turned the country's agriculture into collective farms, sad villages of desperate, perpetually inebriated country folk presided over by Red Army officers whose only experience with farming was riding the horses the army had supplied. Marincountyfreelibrary Edition 1st Simon & Schuster hardcover ed. Elena Gorokhova’s A Mountain of Crumbs is the moving story of a Soviet girl who discovers the truths adults are hiding from her and the lies her homeland lives by.Elena’s country is no longer the majestic Russia of literature or the tsars, but a nation struggling to retain its power and its pride. Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 20:55:30 Bookplateleaf 0004 Boxid IA1127404 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donor ![]()
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