Two Circles of Life

Book excerpt: This book is a biographical story of my life. The decision to publicize it was made after different people who heard it from me at different times thought it was unique, fascinating, dramatic, and worth recording. My grandparents immigrated to the United States from different parts of the Russian Empire. My parents were born in the U.S. and independently of each other moved to the Soviet Union to help build what they thought "the world's most progressive new society with equality of all." What they found there instead was KGB and GULAG, which destroyed their lives along with millions of other innocent people. The book tells the story of growing up under Communist dogmas, depicts all the dramatic events I had to go through, describes various facets of the Soviet society, and provides the insider's analysis of Communism and the Soviet Union.