Vladimir Gusarov

My Papa Murdered Mikhoels (eBook, PDF)

Übersetzer: Giller, Clive A.; Popov, Yuri A.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 290
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Mai 2015
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780761886808
• Artikelnr.: 74849723

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

The translators; acknowledgements
Introduction
Part 1
PrologueAbout HomerAbout fatherTo age seventeenAbout
mamaChildhoodIdeology8First deviation
Papa's friendsPityThe whole countryAll-Saints and SokolReflectionsBoy with
a cockSverdlovskKabakov's black catPerm; it's also MolotovHe and SheThe
theatre20The other grandmother
ColleaguesIgnoramus22nd 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
LeninVerkhovsky46Internationale
Part 2
In 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 things
Part 3
How 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 Iskusstv90Kashchenko
In 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 Petka
101 Yakir
102 Epilogue
Chronology
Glossary
Bibliography
Index