Table of Contents
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
NOTEBOOK 1
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
NOTEBOOK 2
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
NOTEBOOK 3
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
NOTEBOOK 4
1 Holy and Unholy Work
2 My Second Arrest
3 ‘We Know All about You’
4 Butyrka Humanism
5 Becoming Acquainted with Vorkuta
NOTEBOOK 5
1 At the Brick Factory
2 Tents for the Condemned
3 Borya Elisavetsky
4 Vorkuta, Kotlas, Kirov
5 Russian Patriots
Photographs
NOTEBOOK 6
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!’
NOTEBOOK 7
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
NOTEBOOK 8
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
NOTEBOOK 9
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
Appendix 1: Timeline of Baitalsky’s Life
Appendix 2: Baitalsky’s Other Writings
Appendix 3: Baitalsky: Obituaries and Eulogies
Appendix 4: Russian Government Archival Documentation of The Mass Executions February 1937–September 1938
Appendix 5: The Vorkuta Hunger Strike: What Russian Government Archives Have Revealed
Appendix 6: The 1938 Executions of the Left Opposition Supporters at the Brick Factory: The Executioner’s Official Report
Appendix 7: Excerpts from The Official Conviction and Rehabilitation Documents of a Leader of the 1936 Vorkuta Hunger Strike and 13 Co-Defendants
Appendix 8: The Moscow Trials 1936–1938
Bibliography
Index
