Foreword by G.O.Pavlovsky
Moscow, Europe Publishing House, 2005, pp 544
The book by Natalia Kozlova is a result of painstaking research conducted in the People's Archives, founded fifteen years ago. From a multitude of diary notes left by ordinary people, the author has selected a few autobiographies by low-rank careerists, who, like tiny wood splinters, made heroic efforts to keep on the surface of whirlpools of great Soviet history. The book includes an ingenuous chronicle of one among millions of simple women, who helped the country to survive in most unbearable situations.
