UNDER THE WHEEL OF HISTORY is the memoir of my mother's dramatic journey through the 20th century. She was born in Russia in 1900 and lived through two revolutions and two World Wars. She died, in California, at the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Her memoir recounts a life of courage, discipline, spirit of sacrifice, and of imagination and initiative with which she managed to overcome the odds and perils of her mostly tragic trajectory.