No, I don't think it was that book. The book I remember was set in Siberia, I think. There were wolves in it. But I might have been 11 or 12 years when I read it, so it is really hard to remember. But it must have been somewhat popular to have been translated into Swedish though... I suppose another option was that the book was only set in Russia, but not written by a Russian author. Or I am mixing up Russia and Poland (for some reason I did that when I was a kid). Maybe it will come to me - at least I remembered that German book.

I remember reading a few war stories from the childrens war stories from the USSR though - books from the library! Memorable and more dramatic and realistic than anything else about that era, apart from maybe the diary of Anne Frank.

I am pleased to have grown up in an era were children actually read worthwhile books in their spare time.

Don't you think that what one reads in childhood affects how you think when you grow up?