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Stalin's Children. Love, War and Struggle of Three Generations. By Owen Matthews. Translated by Elín Guðmundsdóttir.
When Owen Matthews began working as a journalist in Moscow, he came across KGB files about his Soviet grandfather, a revolutionary hero who, through the twists and turns of fate, fell into disgrace. Matthews tells of the fate of his grandparents and his mother and maternal aunt in the Soviet Union in the years after the revolution and during Stalin's reign of terror, the love affair between his mother and his British father and their struggle to be together. There are also descriptions of life in Moscow and on the battlefields of Chechnya in the 1990s, after the collapse of communism and during Russia's economic hardship. A very moving and gripping account of human destiny and human dignity. (Bókatíðindi 2011).
When Owen Matthews began working as a journalist in Moscow, he came across KGB files about his Soviet grandfather, a revolutionary hero who, through the twists and turns of fate, fell into disgrace. Matthews tells of the fate of his grandparents and his mother and maternal aunt in the Soviet Union in the years after the revolution and during Stalin's reign of terror, the love affair between his mother and his British father and their struggle to be together. There are also descriptions of life in Moscow and on the battlefields of Chechnya in the 1990s, after the collapse of communism and during Russia's economic hardship. A very moving and gripping account of human destiny and human dignity. (Bókatíðindi 2011).