A Mountain of Crumbs

The Leonard Lopate Show | May 10, 2010
Elena Gorokhova describes what it was like to grow up in the Soviet Union of the 1960s. In her memoir A Mountain of Crumbs, she recounts her love of the English language, her family's daily deprivations and small joys, and tells the story of Russia in the second half of the twentieth century.

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