{"product_id":"9781803996691","title":"Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthors: Anna Hyrske \u0026amp; Kirsti Huurre\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eFinland | Former Soviet Union, USSR (Europe) | c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period) | c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2) | Memoirs | Revolutions, uprisings, rebellions | Second World War | Marxism \u0026amp; Communism | Political structures: totalitarianism \u0026amp; dictatorship\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 10\u003csup\u003eth\u003c\/sup\u003e October 2024 by The History Press Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHardback | 2 Maps; 13 Illustrations, black and white \u003cbr\u003e234mm x 156mm | 0g\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"gardners-meta\"\u003e\n\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/Star.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\u003cimg src=\"https:\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0403\/1273\/3859\/files\/StarEmpty.png?v=1676424882\" style=\"display: inline-block; height: 25px; width: 25px;\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e \u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eUnder the Sickle and the Sledgehammer was originally published in 1942, as war still raged between Finland and Soviet Union. Its writer was a Finnish woman who emigrated to Russia in the 1930s, convinced the new egalitarian state and workers’ paradise would be a better life for her and her young son, hopeful once settled she could send for him. What followed was very different to what was promised: a life in constant fear, under intense government scrutiny, of purges and Great Wraths, good people imprisoned and shot; and state-run propaganda that spun a web of lies around its people. The author eventually escaped, defying the odds when so many of her friends and loved ones did not, and recorded her memories under a pseudonym in what became the second most censored book from Finnish libraries after the war. This is the first English translation of this important memoir, whose original preface states: ‘I simply want to provide an honest account of what my friends and I had to live through under the “Stalinist sun”.’\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41871008628871,"sku":"9781803996691","price":20.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0357\/3199\/6807\/files\/9781803996691.jpg?v=1724230287","url":"https:\/\/thebookhousebroughtyferry.live\/products\/9781803996691","provider":"The Bookhouse Broughty Ferry","version":"1.0","type":"link"}