Sofia Petrovna

Sofia Petrovna This short novel is an important Russian classic written about the purges in which millions of Russians died. The novel basically examines the effect of lies on societies. The author said she wanted to show how an entire people could be poisoned by lies, just as a military force could be gassed.

The novel deals with deep psychological aspects formed in the model of the mother, to show how ideological propaganda, when it surrounds the entire society, can plant panic in people's souls and distort the strongest innate feelings represented by the feelings of the mother. The writer presents us through her heroine, a frightening model of the Soviet citizen in that era, revealing the psychological conflicts he engages in when he is shocked by the ideology he adopted and even worshipped; then it kidnaps his family from him in scenes that are unbelievable. Lydia Chukovskaya (1907-1996) is a Russian poet, novelist, and memoirist. Her husband was executed in the purge campaign, and she narrowly escaped the same fate.