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48 pages 1 hour read

Lydia Chukovskaya

Sofia Petrovna

Lydia ChukovskayaFiction | Novella | Adult | Published in 1965

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Essay Topics

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Sofia Petrovna takes a huge historical event, the Great Terror, and focuses on individuals, showing how they’re caught behind a “wall of terror.” Does everyone have the same response to this reign of terror? Compare and contrast two characters.

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How does Sofia embody the ideal of the new Soviet woman? How does her commitment to living a productive, patriotic life impede her from questioning the justness of Kolya’s arrest?

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Explore Chukovskaya’s description of Stalinist ideology as voiced by Kolya. Are his screeds satire, or are they meant to accurately depict what someone like him would have thought?

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