My Papa Murdered Mikhoels
Hamilton Books (Verlag)
978-0-7618-6534-6 (ISBN)
The author’s father, when he was a senior Communist Party member in Belorussia, could have been implicated in the assassination of Mikhoels, the popular director of the State Jewish Theatre in the Soviet Union. This was carried out on the orders of Stalin in 1948 when Vladimir was twenty three years old. His own life is headed towards the theatre rather than politics—and subsequently, ‘shaming his father’s grey hairs,’ into the Moscow dissident movement. Early years are sheltered and privileged, but a psychotic outburst in a restaurant against the tyranny of Stalinism results in him being incarcerated in the Serbsky Institute of Forensic Psychiatry, where he comes across an aristocratic English spy. Gusarov himself has a keen interest in the West and expresses particular admiration for the British Labour Party as well as the Queen. Further deviations, run-ins with the KGB and Soviet psychiatry pattern a failing stage career. But he does at one point find himself the uneasy star of a film about Soviet railways ordered by Kaganovich. During all this time father, for his own sake as much as that of his son, saves Vladimir from being sent to a labour camp. Perhaps that is what allows him to write with such cynical humour about his slow descent into chaos and oblivion. His accounts of a multitude of encounters with people from all walks of Russian life (including colourful episodes with Voroshilov and Solzhenitsyn—as well as his marriages and wayward sexual adventures) are enormously enriched by the actor’s power of speech recall.
Clive Giller (born 1933 in London) is a retired architect, but after graduating from Cambridge University practised at first as an engineer. He learned Russian when doing National Service and has since travelled in Russia and become keenly interested in recent developments there. Yuri Popov (born 1951 in Kotlas, USSR) studied sculpture and architecture at the Repin Institute, Saint Petersburg. He came to England in 1991 and since then has continued to involve himself in building design and sculpture.
The translators; acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1
1Prologue
2About Homer
3About father
4To age seventeen
5About mama
6Childhood
7Ideology
8First deviation
9Papa’s friends
10Pity
11The whole country
12All-Saints and Sokol
13Reflections
14Boy with a cock
15Sverdlovsk
16Kabakov’s black cat
17Perm; it’s also Molotov
18He and She
19The theatre
20The other grandmother
21Colleagues
22Ignoramus
2322nd June 1941
24Evacuees
25Commissar Zavirokhin
26A fighting friend
27Antselovich
28To the front
29The front
30German leaflets
31Don’t be a white crow!
32My universities
33A situation
34A pass to all locations
35Mistakes
36Again the theatre
37Crisis
38November celebrations
39International Organisation for the Assistance of Casualties (MOPR)
40The crisis develops
41Not comrade Stalin, but Iosif Vissarionovich!
42Seriozha Shtein
43Dust, dust, dust…
44The role of Lenin
45Verkhovsky
46Internationale
Part 2
47In the remand cell (KPZ)
48Friday
49Alone
50The martyr’s crown of the Russian intelligentsia
51A twilight state of the spirit
52The commission
53One floor higher
54Taganka – every night filled with fire
55Balashikha prison
56The stolypin
57Kazan
58The Russian nationalist Soldatov
59The Anthem of the Soviet Union
60He is dead, dead, dead …
61The doctors’ plot
62Emperors and presidents
63Beria – enemy of the people
64To the gallows of the Bolsheviks!
65The British subject
66On the side of the party
67Film director Kapchinsky
68Intellizhens Servis
69SR Lapshov
70The dictator
71Butyrka
72With your things
Part 3
73How life treated me when I was free
74Amorous business
75Rumours
76The American exhibition
77Two more years
78My little white pigeon
79From my diary
80A death and a funeral
81Ivan Denisovich
82Working days
83Chapaevsky Street
84Unemployed
85Tomsk
86Grandmother Fenia
87Nikolia-the-fool
88Television
89Zaochni Narodni Universitet Iskusstv
90Kashchenko
91In the homeland of a great writer
92I love you
93At the Ministry of Culture
94Aesop and the GPU (State Political Administration)
95A page from my diary
96Pages from my diary
97In the Kremlin hospital
98The Klyazma sanatorium
99The last lines of a confiscated diary
100 Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev and Petka
101 Yakir
102 Epilogue
Chronology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index
| Übersetzer | Clive A. Giller, Yuri A. Popov |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 153 x 227 mm |
| Gewicht | 435 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
| Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Geschichte / Politik | |
| Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Neuzeit (bis 1918) | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-7618-6534-9 / 0761865349 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-7618-6534-6 / 9780761865346 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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