Readers know Alla Gerber from her piercing articles, books, interviews, and radio and television appearances. Her public temperament is widely known. “Where is the source of this energy?” writes Lev Anнинский in the preface. Perhaps it’s in her family? Alla Gerber wrote an astonishing memoir book about her childhood and growing up, about her parents, friends, the difficult fate of a whole generation—and one Soviet family. Yet the author’s personal story has become close to many. And this story has no time.