My life in Stalinist Russia

"In January 1931, Mary M. Leder, an American teenager, was attending high school in Santa Monica California. By year's end, she was living in a Moscow commune and working in a factory, thousands of miles from her family, with whom she had emigrated to Birobidzhan, the area designated by the USSR as a Jewish socialist homeland. Although her parents soon returned to America, Mary would spend the next 34 years in the Soviet Union."--BOOK JACKET.