Comes the Revolution

In 1931, under the cloud of the Great Depression, twenty-one-year-old Birdie, a Jewish New Yorker, loses her job at Macy's. Disenchanted with the American way, her growing belief in the Soviet system drives her to travel to Russia, where she has a romance with a writer who is denounced and sent to Siberia-but not before she becomes pregnant with his child.

In her attempts to free him, Birdie is aided by an American journalist, whom she eventually marries. Just before World War II, Birdie returns to the United States with her husband and daughter.

In moving back to America, Birdie is not turning her back on her socialist ideals, however. Still pro-Soviet, along with many of her family and friends, Birdie finds life during the Cold War to be extremely difficult, and her marriage turns out to be burdensome as well. Yet through it all, her spirit for social change remains undiminished.

A fascinating exploration of a world that is not as black and white as is often portrayed, "Comes the Revolution" is author Karl Rodman's fictionalized biography of his aunt-a strong, determined woman who worked hard for what she believed, living and loving with equal passion.