"Forsaken Russia: Journalist in a Closed Society"

 

This book was written by Viktor Perelman not long before his emigration from Russia, mostly while working at the “Literary Newspaper”, a central Moscow weekly. Because some of its provocative, yet reality-based contents, depicting the struggles of a journalist within a society governed by heavily censored state press, its manuscript was originally hidden courageously by a family friend at her home, and then smuggled by Viktor in his luggage, when leaving Moscow for Israel. The first edition, entitled “Forsaken Russia,” was published in Israel as two separate books: ”Illusions” (1976) and “The Crash” (1977). In 1977, “Forsaken Russia” received the second prize for literature from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

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Viktor Perelman dedicated "Forsaken Russia" to his only daughter, Irina.