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THIS Is MY AFFAIR-Lola Kinel-Lit-tle, Brown...
Anyone who was growing up in Eastern Europe in 1916 could hardly avoid experiences that in peacetime would seem abnormal. Lola Kinel, a Polish girl whose family lived in Petrograd, had no more than her share of Wartime and post-War cyclones, but to U. S. readers the weather she lived through seems stormy indeed. A cut above the usual adventure-autobiography, This Is My Affair should appeal to those who find true stories as readable as novels and often more entertaining...
...Lola Kinel returned from a visit to the U. S. just in time to see the first revolution in Petrograd. It was just like a Russian Easter. "It was grand. All one had to do to feel tremendously exhilarated was to go out on the streets." With the Bolshevik Revolution everything got more serious. Lola was an anti-Bolshevik. She turned down a chance to become one of Trotsky's secretaries, got a job instead on the Russian Daily News, only English daily paper in Petrograd, and the last counter-revolutionary paper to be suppressed. She fell in love...
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