My Papa Murdered Mikhoels (eBook)

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; acknowledgementsIntroductionPart 1PrologueAbout HomerAbout fatherTo age seventeenAbout mamaChildhoodIdeology8First deviationPapa’s friendsPityThe whole countryAll-Saints and SokolReflectionsBoy with a cockSverdlovskKabakov’s black catPerm; it’s also MolotovHe and SheThe theatre20The other grandmotherColleaguesIgnoramus22nd June 1941EvacueesCommissar ZavirokhinA fighting friendAntselovichTo the frontThe frontGerman leafletsDon’t be a white crow!My universitiesA situationA pass to all locationsMistakesAgain the theatreCrisisNovember celebrationsInternational Organisation for the Assistance of Casualties (MOPR)The crisis developsNot comrade Stalin, but Iosif Vissarionovich!Seriozha ShteinDust, dust, dust…The role of LeninVerkhovsky46InternationalePart 2In the remand cell (KPZ)FridayAloneThe martyr’s crown of the Russian intelligentsiaA twilight state of the spiritThe commissionOne floor higherTaganka – every night filled with fireBalashikha prisonThe stolypinKazanThe Russian nationalist SoldatovThe Anthem of the Soviet UnionHe is dead, dead, dead …The doctors’ plotEmperors and presidentsBeria – enemy of the peopleTo the gallows of the Bolsheviks!The British subjectOn the side of the partyFilm director KapchinskyIntellizhens ServisSR LapshovThe dictatorButyrka72With your thingsPart 3How life treated me when I was freeAmorous business RumoursThe American exhibitionTwo more yearsMy little white pigeonFrom my diaryA death and a funeral Ivan DenisovichWorking daysChapaevsky Street UnemployedTomskGrandmother FeniaNikolia-the-foolTelevisionZaochni Narodni Universitet Iskusstv90KashchenkoIn the homeland of a great writerI love youAt the Ministry of CultureAesop and the GPU (State Political Administration)A page from my diaryPages from my diaryIn the Kremlin hospitalThe Klyazma sanatoriumThe last lines of a confiscated diary100 Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev and Petka101 Yakir102 EpilogueChronologyGlossaryBibliographyIndex