Her father was Alfred Adler and her mother was Raissa Timofeyevna Epstein, daughter of a Jewish merchant from Moscow.
Adler started to work as an editor at a publishing house focused around Soviet emigrants.
She became disenchanted by the Soviet Union as the political and social climate changed and voiced her concerns through her writing.
Her parents had met Leon Trotsky before, which the military tribunal claimed was the cause for Adler's interests and involvement in anti-Soviet activism.
[1] In 1952 Albert Einstein petitioned the Soviet Union to release details about Adler's trial.