A ROOM IN MOSCOW

by Sally Belfrage ‧ RELEASE DATE: Feb. 10, 1958

Twenty-one year old, American born, Sally Belfrage is not a political crusader. It was her keen interest in people and attitudes which led her first to Soviet Russia, and subsequently to Red China. It is this very detachment to politics which makes A Room in Moscow a remarkable document, both socially and politically. Determined to see rather than judge, her approach to the Communist countries was partisan. Here she made many warm friendships, and as a working girl in Moscow lived as a Russian as much as possible. Her vitality and her objectivity held her in good stead, and she conveys with sympathy the pecullar plight of the Communist citizens who-on the one hand have attained a richness through their intense patriotism and feeling of community, but who on the other live in fear- deprived of that most accessible luxury, solitude... A society of barren functionalism, one which simultaneously arouses admiration and horror, this is the enigma Sally Belfrage reveals with force, clarity and remarkable maturity.

Pub Date: Feb. 10, 1958

ISBN: N/A

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Publisher: Viking-Reynal

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Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 1, 1958

Categories: NONFICTION