The Sky is Blue, the Stars are Red: A Story of One Russian Childhood

by Margarita Ward

A high school teacher from the American Midwest recounts what it was like growing up in the seventies and early eighties in the middle of a vast Russian province. The book provides a view into the author’s childhood and traces her expanding awareness of the surrounding world and its ancient history tainted by a doomed ideology, and into the Soviet mythology that many generations of Russian children were subjected to. The book gives an insight into the formation of a Russian identity with many historical references and explores the connection of a national character and history. The “Story of One Russian Childhood” captures the social and cultural environment on the verge of the collapse of the Soviet Union presented from the point of view of a Russian girl.

425 pages, Kindle Edition

Published February 14, 2015