Moscow, 1937
Book - 2012
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Cambridge, UK ; Malden, MA :
Polity
c2012.
- Language
- English
German - Main Author
- Other Authors
- Edition
- English ed
- Item Description
- Colored map on endpapers.
- Physical Description
- xix, 652 p. : ill., maps (some col.) ; 24 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN
- 9780745650777
9780745650760
- Navigation : Margarita's flight. Margarita's flight
- Manuscripts don't burn : a writer in 1937
- Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts
- Dramatis personae and their portrayal : dual characters
- NKVD, the organization
- 'People vanished from their apartments without trace'
- Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle
- 'It can't be!'
- Moscow as a construction site : Stalin's general plan in action. Aleksandr Medvedkin's film New Moscow
- A new cityscape : Stalin's general plan for the reconstruction of Moscow
- Moscow as a construction site : between demolition and new construction
- Moscow beyond the ring roads
- Human landscape, struggle for survival
- A topography of the disappeared : the Moscow directory of 1936. Snapshot of the status quo : directories as documents of their age
- Topography of power and other locations
- Traces of the disappeared
- Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses
- The creation of enemies : the criminal prosecution of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center, 19-24 August 1936. World-historical criminal cases : the rhetoric of the first Moscow show trial
- The echo of violence : how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language
- 'Double-dealers'
- The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law
- The ideal enemy
- 'Tired of the effort of observing and understanding' : Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937. A key scene in European intellectual history : Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin
- The impotence of the anti-fascist movement : how to generate a point of view
- The end of the flâneur : journey in the shadow of the NKVD
- The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning : credo quia absurdum
- Leave-taking at Belorusskii Station
- In the glare of battle : Spain and other fronts. Moscow maps : the scene is Spain
- A world in meltdown, war scare
- The Soviet nation as a patriotic fighting unit
- Metastases : show trial in Barcelona, the NKVD abroad
- Barcelona transfer : Moscow experiences
- Blindness and terror : the suppressed census of 1937. A journey into the interior of society
- 6 January 1937 : snapshot of an empire
- Ten years after the census of 1926 : balance sheet after the Great Leap Forward
- Self-analysis, self-education, data acquisition
- The shock of the missing millions
- Statistics as crime
- A stage for the horrors of industrialization : the second Moscow show trial in January 1937. 'The business-like atmosphere'
- The language of expert witnesses
- The topography of the Five-Year Plan
- Human sacrifice, nemesis, chorus
- Postscript
- 'A feast in the time of plague' : the Pushkin jubilee of 10 February 1937. The New York Times : 'all Russia was Pushkin-mad today'
- 'Comrade Pushkin' : consecration of a classic
- A feast in the time of plague : coded discourses
- Platitudes of a new culture
- Russian genius and imperial rule
- Public death : Ordzhonikidze's suicide and death rites. The shock : Sergo is dead
- Escape into ritual
- Suicide as a weapon
- A hopeless situation and protest
- Death as a group experience : speaking of death in times of mass murder
- The engine room of the year 1937 : the February-March plenum of the Central Committee. A leadership at its wits' end : the voice of panic
- Testing the limits and exceeding them : the Party indicts Bukharin and Rykov
- The shock : 'universal, free, secret elections'
- Audit report : ungovernability and fear of chaos
- Wreckers at work in the NKVD
- The dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one
- Setting the machinery in motion
- Moscow in Paris : the USSR pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937. The exhibition trail : a journey through the map of the Soviet Union
- The theme park of twentieth-century civilization
- Marginal encounters
- Red Square : parade ground and place of execution
- Chopin concert and killing ritual : radio and the creation of the great community. Radiofikatsia : the two faces of progress
- Radio as the background noise of the new age
- The sphere of feelings
- Radio listeners as 'citizens of the world'
- Stalin : the original soundtrack : the direction of the historical moment
- Wreckers at work in the ether
- Soviet art deco : time preserved in stone. The first All-Union Congress of Architects, 16-26 June 1937
- Moscow as a building site
- Chaos and stress
- The Soviet universe as exhibition
- The creation of a new style during a state of emergency
- Closing speech : Frank Lloyd Wright
- 'Brown bodies, gaily coloured shorts' : sports parade. 'The glorious beauty of young people'
- Fizkul'turnik, fizkul'turnitsa : icons of the new age
- 'Stalin's tribe' : tableaux vivants in Red Square
- Wealth and destruction : the Seventeenth International Geology Congress in Moscow. The emergence of Soviet geologists : science and the dream of an affluent nation
- Pioneers the nation does not need : geologists as enemies of the people
- Vladimir Vernadskii : a patriot without fear
- Excursion to the Moscow-Volga Canal : science and slave labour
- A city by the sea : the opening of the Moscow-Volga Canal. After the White Sea Canal : Stalin's second arterial highway
- A canal as a Gesamtkunstwerk : the aesthetics of a man-made riverscape
- Dmitlag, the Gulag Archipelago at the gates of the capital : the parallel society of the camp zone
- Perekovka/reforging : the laboratory of the new man
- 'I have seen a country that has been transformed into one great camp'
- Year of adventures, 1937 : a Soviet Icarus. Triumphs, records : a city in a fever
- Non-stop to America
- The conquest of the Arctic
- Twentieth-century adventures
- Heroes of the age : Stalin's aviators
- 'There are thousands of dreamers like me'
- 'Bolshevik romanticism' and terror
- Moscow as shop-windows : the abundance of the world, hungry for goods and dizzy with hunger. André Gide : on luxury and shortages
- Advertisements, window displays : objects of desire and how to present them
- Dizzy with hunger
- A hopeless struggle : a nation of speculators
- The queue as grapevine
- Open spaces, dream landscapes : cruising on the Volga, holidaying on the Red Riviera, conspiracies in the Dachas
- The national Bolshevik Nikolai Ustrialov : his return home and death. Returning home from exile : establishing contact with the new Russia
- national Bolshevism and Stalin's 'socialism in one country'
- The world of 'former people' and 1937
- A double reading : a diary with comments by the NKVD
- Celebrating the October revolution on 7 November 1937. In the diplomats' box
- Conversations in the inner circle of power
- a miniature of high society before the massacre. The bombs come closer
- Beau monde, illustrious society
- Masked ball at the American Embassy
- Interior with piano and nursemaid
- Yezhov's salon : art and the secret police
- Postscript : inventory of luxury and fashion
- Soviet Hollywood : miracles and monsters. Lenin in October : the Revolution corrected
- The USSR as a land of film, picture palaces and stars
- Mosfilm 1937 : chaos in the film factory
- Volga-Volga : directors as conspirators, actors as spies
- Terror and good entertainment
- Death in exile. Dimitrov's diary : a record of self-destruction
- Vanishing point Moscow : biotope
- Foreign comrades
- Vulnerability : world communism as world conspiracy
- Lists, dossiers and card indexes
- Arcadia in Moscow : Stalin's Luna Park. 'A centre of culture and rest'
- 'What a summer!'
- The locus of public opinion
- 'Avtozavodtsy' : the workforce of the Stalin car factories. 'Shanghai' : city of immigrants, city on the periphery
- Ivan Likhachev, captain of industry
- Factory patriotism : the factory as melting pot
- 'Mass criticism', or the orchestration of hatred and despair
- Dzhaz : the sound of the thirties. Dzhaz (Utesov)
- Songs for the masses (Dunaevskii)
- Classical music (Shostakovich)
- Changing faces, changing times
- America, America : the other new world. Ili'a Il'f and Evgenii Petrov's journey to America
- Special relations : Soviet Americanism and the New Deal
- The American way of life in 1937
- Utopia as present-day reality
- 'I know of no other country...' : 1937 and the production of Soviet space. The birth of the Soviet Union from the spirit of songs for the masses
- Moscow as an image-making machine
- Homogenizing labour : purges and the unity of the Soviet nation
- The Butovo shooting range : topography of the great terror. Looking for traces : the archaeology of the graveyard
- Mass murder on the outskirts of the city
- Sociology of the mass grave
- Killing by quota : Order No. 00447
- World war, civil war
- Lonely white sail... : dreamtime, children's worlds
- Yezhov at the Bolshoi Theatre : celebrating twenty years of the Cheka. At the heart of Moscow : power made visible
- Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders
- Ovations for the executioners : morituri salutant
- Bukharin takes his leave. Bukharin's final plea
- The show trial : exercises in dialectics
- The Lubianka : prison as a production site
- Letter to Koba
- A Moscow childhood in 1900
- 'For official use only' : Moscow as a city on the enemy map
- The foundation pit. The imaginary centre : a support for the empire
- The dome that disappeared : Russian Byzantium
- Labouring away at a vacuum : fantasies of the building of the century
- Rome, New York, Moscow : the genius of Boris Iofan
- War, post-war, and the end of the state of emergency
- Instead of an epilogue.
Review by Choice Review Copyright American Library Association, used with permission.