Sofia Petrovna is Lydia Chukovskaya's fictional account of the Great Purge. Sofia is a Soviet Everywoman, a doctor's widow who works as a typist in a Leningrad publishing house. When her beloved son is caught up in the maelstrom of the purge, she joins the long lines of women outside the prosecutor's office, hoping against hope for good news. Confronted with a world that makes no moral sense, Sofia goes mad, a madness which manifests itself in delusions little different from the lies those around her tell every day to protect themselves.
- ISBN10 0810111500
- ISBN13 9780810111509
- Publish Date 30 June 1994 (first published 2 April 1990)
- Publish Status Inactive
- Out of Print 5 October 2023
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Northwestern University Press
- Edition 3rd Revised edition
- Format Paperback
- Pages 120
- Language English