When the young Finnish woman left her home country in the 1930s, she was headed for Stalin's Soviet Russia, lured by the dream of living in a worker's paradise.
 

But that dream turned into a nine-year nightmare, one which she recorded in her diary. 
 

When that diary was published in 1942, under the pseudonym Kirsti Huurre for safety, it became one of Finland's most banned books. But now, 90 years later, Huurre's great-granddaughter Anna Hyrske has translated the memoir, Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer, into English.
 

Read more about this fascinating story in our online article from Sunday Extra.
 

Then, tune into Life Matters for a timely discussion about our relationship with work and how we might change it to meet our needs in 2025. 
 

Plus, listen back to Arts In 30 to hear from author and artist Lucy Sante about how she expects a second Trump presidency to affect trans and gender-diverse artists.

A controversial memoir of a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Ninety years later, her granddaughter has translated the diary into English.

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Prominent Indigenous leaders Pat Turner, Lorena Allam and Lindon Coombes on the next steps for treaty and truth telling as Australians enter an election year.

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US president Donald Trump recently declared that "there are only two genders" and made sweeping changes to diversity, equity and inclusion programs. Writer and artist Lucy Sante explores what this mean for trans and gender-diverse artists in America.

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