Back in time : my life, my fate, my epoch : the memoirs of Nadezhda A. Joffe

This is the only memoir to be written in the post-Stalin Soviet Union by a member of the Left Opposition that had been formed under the leadership of Leon Trotsky in 1923. Nadezhda Joffe is the daughter of Adolf Abramovich Joffe, the Bolshevik leader and Left Oppositionist who committed suicide in 1927 to protest the expulsion of Trotsky from the Bolshevik Party. She gives a nightmarish and moving account of her fate and that of countless others at the hands of the Stalinist bureaucracy. Nadezhda Joffe survived and her memoir provides us with the testimony of one who experienced, with a high degree of political consciousness, the most tragic events of this century. "Mrs. Joffe writes of the pain and difficulty of everyday life in the Kolyma camps, but the book also contains her memories of Trotsky, which offer interesting personal anecdotes about a man known best for his passion for communism and dedication to the Red Army.--The Jewish News (Detroit) ;Rarely does one come across a book that makes one sad enough to cry and yet able in the end to celebrate the indestructibility of the human spirit. This is such a book."--Theodore Draper, New Republic; "Nadezhda Adolfovna Joffe (Russian: Надежда Адольфовна Иоффе) (1906 March 18, 1999) was a Soviet Trotskyist and daughter of early Soviet leader Adolph Joffe. Joffe joined the Trotskyist Left Opposition within the Soviet Communist Party shortly after it was formed in 1923 and was first exiled from Moscow in 1929. She was re-arrested at the beginning of the Great Purge in 1936 and sent to Kolyma labor camps in Siberia, where her first husband, Trotskyist Pavel Kossakovsky, was killed in 1938. She was the last person to see Leon Trotsky's first wife, Aleksandra Sokolovskaya, alive in Kolyma in 1938. After Joseph Stalin's death in 1953, Joffe's sentence was annulled and she returned to Moscow in 1956. She wrote a book of memoirs, Back in Time: My Life, My Fate, My Epoch in 1971-1972, which was first published in Moscow after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1992. Her family emigrated to the United States at the end of her life and she settled in Brooklyn, New York City. She worked on her father's biography and his letters until her death in 1999 at the age of 92, collaborating with Iskra Research publishing house."--Wikipedia I began writing these memoirs, or rather the history of my life, during the time of "stagnation" under Brezhnev. Translated From The Russian By Frederick S. Choate. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 239) And Index.