Fifty Russian Winters: An American Woman's Life in the Soviet Union by Margaret Wettlin

My rating: 2 of 5 stars


I wanted to like this book, I did.

It was poorly written and edited. The woman had an incredible story as an American school teacher who went to the USSR in the 1930s on a teacher exchange, fell in love, married, had children, had her passport confiscated, endured World War II in Russia and stayed for 50 years until
her husband's death.

I can't believe she didn't get help in terms of ghost-writing. She tried her best to tell the story. While she had worked as a translator in the USSR and was around books all the time, anyone would have struggled telling their life's story in one novel.

While many Russians escaped to the United States during communism, the author is one of only a couple dozen of Americans who was sympathetic to socialism and immigrated there.


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