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Notebooks for the Grandchildren : Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror
Notebooks for the Grandchildren : Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror
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Author(s): Baitalsky, Mikhail
ISBN No.: 9789004316096
Pages: XLIV, 564
Year: 202504
Format: Trade Cloth (Hard Cover)
Price: $ 255.30
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available

Foreword Acknowledgements List of Maps and Figures Glossary Introductory Comments Yuula Benivolski Translator's Note A Brief Chronology of the Russian Revolution and its Aftermath Translator's Introduction Notebooks for the Grandchildren Baitalsky's Introduction: Preliminary Remarks: The 1920s and the 1970s NOTEBOOK1 1 Communist Youth League Christening 2 Our Jacobin Monastery 3 Were We Cultured? 4 Standards of Human Behaviour 5 Primary and Secondary Feelings 6 Husbands and Wives in the Communist Youth League 7 A Few Remarks about the Language of the Times NOTEBOOK2 1 How It Was and How It Became 2 The Family of an Odessa Tailor 3 Ideological Commitment and Calvinism 4 I Saw My Homeland 5 Friendship with Grisha 6 Days and Evenings Without Romance 7 Cain, Abel and the 'Platform of the 83' 8 The View from the Window of Cell No.9 NOTEBOOK3 1 I Make the Worst Choice 2 My First Arrest 3 A Year of Successes in Astrakhan 4 I Could Have Remained Silent about This Too 5 Features of the New Order 6 More about Boris and the Features of the Time NOTEBOOK4 1 Holy and Unholy Work 2 My Second Arrest 3 'We Know All about You' 4 Butyrka Humanism 5 Becoming Acquainted with Vorkuta NOTEBOOK5 1 At the Brick Factory 2 Tents for the Condemned 3 Borya Elisavetsky 4 Vorkuta, Kotlas, Kirov 5 Russian Patriots Photographs NOTEBOOK6 1 They Even Found Me Here 2 My Co-Butyrnik 3 You Don't Get Something For Nothing 4 A Credo on the Subject of Wages 5 The Scream of a Woman in the Corridor 6 'Consider Yourself Lucky!' NOTEBOOK7 1 Distinguishing Padding from Content 2 I End Up in the First Circle 3 We Delve into the Psalms of the New David 4 The Cunning Machine of the Special Judicial Sessions 5 Conversations in the Main Alley NOTEBOOK8 1 To Vorkuta for the Second Time 2 To Each His Own 3 Even Those Who Were Deported Are Voting 4 Joseph Rakhmetov 5 A Period of Camp Liberalisation 6 A Puddle With a Watchtower on Its Shore NOTEBOOK9 1 Meaningless Yackers Fall in Line 2 Vorkuta- My Alma Mater 3 The Poisonous Weapon of Hushing Things Up 4 Love and Hatred 5 On Very Ordinary Honesty 6 I Hope for an Echo Translator's Postscript Appendix1: Timeline of Baitalsky's Life Appendix2: Baitalsky's Other Writings Appendix3: Baitalsky: Obituaries and Eulogies Appendix4: Russian Government Archival Documentation of The Mass Executions February 1937-September 1938 Appendix5: The Vorkuta Hunger Strike: What Russian Government Archives Have Revealed Appendix6: The 1938 Executions of the Left Opposition Supporters at the Brick Factory: The Executioner's Official Report Appendix7: Excerpts from The Official Conviction and Rehabilitation Documents of a Leader of the 1936 Vorkuta Hunger Strike and 13 Co-Defendants Appendix8: The Moscow Trials 1936-1938 Bibliography Index.


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