Sat, 12/17/2011 - 10:18pm by jenna Gorokhova writes about growing up in 1960s and 70s Leningrad. I'd been curious about life in the USSR, and this memoir was exactly what I was looking for. She's a good writer, especially in her non-native but just as good English. author: Gorokhova, Elenareviewdate: Dec 11 2011isn: 978-1-4391-3558-7author gender: femalefree: soviet unionmedium: booksrecommendation: recommendedbook type: biographymemoir