Born in Russia in the time of Stalin growing up in the prime Soviet years suffering during the corrupt early capitalist period of Glasnost and Yeltsin and finally finding her way to England Mila Joness From Communist to Capitalist is a fascinating look at two entirely different worlds. Veiled behind spy books and minus fifty-degree blizzards Communist Russia was always a place to be feared in the West. But in Milas account we see hard work ambition education and love in exactly the same measure.