My life in Stalinist Russia

the long version

"In January 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to Birobidzhan, the area designated by the USSR as a Jewish socialist homeland. Although her parents soon returned to America, Mary would spend the next 34 years in the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.