Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen fuel and peasants

and peasants

beautifully designed editions of six epic masterpieces that have survived controversy

and now published in English for the first time' Observer

including the letters home

products of a civilization that Stalinism could not accommodate' – Philip Ó

Mastering the Art of Soviet Cooking by Anya von Bremzen fuel and peasants'Funny, angry, ingenious and moving' A. D. Miller Born in a surreal Moscow communal apartment where eighteen families shared one kitchen, Anya von Bremzen grew up singing odes to Lenin, black marketeering Juicy Fruit gum at school, and longing for a taste of the mythical West. It was a life by turns absurd, drab, naively joyous, melancholy and, finally, intolerable. In 1974, when Anya was ten, she and her mother fled to the USA, with no winter coats