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Emigration/ Emigracia (The Experience of My Life/ Opit moey zhizni, Volume 1/ Kniga pervaya) by I.D. (in Russian)
Emigration/ Emigracia by ID - The Experience of My Life/ Opit moey zhizni, Volume 1/ Kniga pervaya - in Russian Author:I.D. What is the Russian emigration? How did this phenomenon begin (if we don't count the emigration during and after the 1917 revolution)? What does a person relocating from one country (Russian and socialist) to a completely different country (American and capitalist) go through? — The novel is constructed both on a comprehensive, panoramic overview... more » of the phenomenon of emigration itself and the life of Russian emigrants in America and on microscopic research into all the psychological processes that take place inside someone who finds himself in the conditions of emigration.
The two countries and two systems, American and Soviet, are plainly seen through that person's inner world.
Emigration covers an extended period of time (about ten years) and consists of two volumes. It illuminates, authentically and in detail, the inner, as well as, though to a lesser degree, the outer life of someone (a 15-year-old girl) who has moved from one culture to another. The book could serve as a textbook for the study of all the processes and mechanisms of emigration as such.
Through the eyes of a young girl raised in the Soviet culture and country, the reader sees America as well.« less