On Difficulties with Acculturation in ‘From Chernobyl with Love’
Journalist Katya Cengel's memoir, From Chernobyl with Love, is more illuminating of the American mindset than it is of Latvia and Ukraine.
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Motherhood and Soviet Life in Nora Ikstena’s Latvian Novel, ‘Soviet Milk’
Nora Ikstena's autofictional history, Soviet Milk, exposes the violence of the Soviet institutionalization of motherhood as a civic duty that was incorporated into the ideological and social structure of Soviet life.