Under the Sickle and the Sledgehammer is an important memoir by a Finnish woman who migrated to Stalin’s Soviet Russia in the 1930s and escaped in 1941. Her diary was originally published in 1942. Now Anna Hyrske is giving new life to her grandmother's memoir in what is the first English translation of what was the second most censored book, second only to Mein Kampf, from Finnish libraries after the war.