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My Papa Murdered Mikhoels

My Papa Murdered Mikhoels
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Vladimir Gusarov
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Artikel-Nr:
9780761865353
Veröffentl:
2015
Seiten:
298
Autor:
Vladimir Gusarov
eBook Typ:
EPUB
Kopierschutz:
Adobe DRM [Hard-DRM]
Sprache:
Englisch
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Beschreibung:

My Papa Murdered Mikhoels is an autobiographical account of the author’s life in the Russian worlds of theatre and politics, including run-ins with the KGB, incarceration in prisons and psychiatric institutions and encounters with people from all walks of Russian life.
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.
The translators; acknowledgements

Introduction

Part 1
  1. Prologue
  2. About Homer
  3. About father
  4. To age seventeen
  5. About mama
  6. Childhood
  7. Ideology
8First deviation
  1. Papa’s friends
  2. Pity
  3. The whole country
  4. All-Saints and Sokol
  5. Reflections
  6. Boy with a cock
  7. Sverdlovsk
  8. Kabakov’s black cat
  9. Perm; it’s also Molotov
  10. He and She
  11. The theatre
20The other grandmother
  1. Colleagues
  2. Ignoramus
  3. 22nd June 1941
  4. Evacuees
  5. Commissar Zavirokhin
  6. A fighting friend
  7. Antselovich
  8. To the front
  9. The front
  10. German leaflets
  11. Don’t be a white crow!
  12. My universities
  13. A situation
  14. A pass to all locations
  15. Mistakes
  16. Again the theatre
  17. Crisis
  18. November celebrations
  19. International Organisation for the Assistance of Casualties (MOPR)
  20. The crisis develops
  21. Not comrade Stalin, but Iosif Vissarionovich!
  22. Seriozha Shtein
  23. Dust, dust, dust…
  24. The role of Lenin
  25. Verkhovsky
46Internationale

Part 2

  1. In the remand cell (KPZ)
  2. Friday
  3. Alone
  4. The martyr’s crown of the Russian intelligentsia
  5. A twilight state of the spirit
  6. The commission
  7. One floor higher
  8. Taganka – every night filled with fire
  9. Balashikha prison
  10. The stolypin
  11. Kazan
  12. The Russian nationalist Soldatov
  13. The Anthem of the Soviet Union
  14. He is dead, dead, dead …
  15. The doctors’ plot
  16. Emperors and presidents
  17. Beria – enemy of the people
  18. To the gallows of the Bolsheviks!
  19. The British subject
  20. On the side of the party
  21. Film director Kapchinsky
  22. Intellizhens Servis
  23. SR Lapshov
  24. The dictator
  25. Butyrka
72With your things

Part 3

  1. How life treated me when I was free
  2. Amorous business
  3. Rumours
  4. The American exhibition
  5. Two more years
  6. My little white pigeon
  7. From my diary
  8. A death and a funeral
  9. Ivan Denisovich
  10. Working days
  11. Chapaevsky Street
  12. Unemployed
  13. Tomsk
  14. Grandmother Fenia
  15. Nikolia-the-fool
  16. Television
  17. Zaochni Narodni Universitet Iskusstv
90Kashchenko
  1. In the homeland of a great writer
  2. I love you
  3. At the Ministry of Culture
  4. Aesop and the GPU (State Political Administration)
  5. A page from my diary
  6. Pages from my diary
  7. In the Kremlin hospital
  8. The Klyazma sanatorium
  9. The last lines of a confiscated diary
100 Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev and Petka
101 Yakir
102 Epilogue

Chronology

Glossary

Bibliography

Index

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