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Stalin Ate My Homework (2010)

by Alexei Sayle(Favorite Author)

3.73 of 5 Votes: 1

ISBN

0340919582 (ISBN13: 9780340919583)

languge

English

genre

Memoir & Autobiography

publisher

Sceptre

review 1: Having parents who took me to 1980s Poland (just before martial law was declared in 1981!) and Czechoslovakia in 1982 this brought back many memories. Particularly the tour of the Heydrich assasination sites in Prague, although I found it more interesting than young Alexei...My parents were not hard-core British Communist Party members, and this aspect of Alexei's upbringing I found particularly interesting, especially their responses to Hungary in 1956 and Czechoslovakia in 1968.The book is slow in a number of places and I found the last 40 or so pages less interesting than the earlier ones, however this account of 1960s and 70s Britain reflects accurately some of the conflict and dogma that dominated the politics of the period.Some non UK readers will find aspects less ... moreeasy to follow, but UK readers should find some resonances with their lives in the 60s and 70s.
review 2: I first saw Alexi Sayle when I was at primary school and he popped up in the Young Ones as the ranting landlord, and then various other ranting roles in which he would invariably spew out a tirade of communist doublespeak, and having now read his autobiography I can understand why. Raised by his communist parents in Liverpool (ranting jewish mother and trade unionist father) and holidaying in Czechoslovakia with trade union officials when most of his peers were at Butlins, his was an unorthodox childhood to say the least. These memoirs paint a vivid and often very funny picture of those times, and his attempts to fit into the world - eventually rebelling as a teenager to become a Maoist instead. less

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