Notebooks for the Grandchildren

Notebooks for the Grandchildren

Recollections of a Supporter of the Marxist Opposition to Stalin Who Survived the Stalin Terror

Vogt-Downey, Marilyn; Baitalsky, Mikhail

Brill

11/2024

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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



NOTEBOOK1

?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



NOTEBOOK2

?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



NOTEBOOK3

?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



NOTEBOOK4

?1?Holy and Unholy Work

?2?My Second Arrest

?3?'We Know All about You'

?4?Butyrka Humanism

?5?Becoming Acquainted with Vorkuta



NOTEBOOK5

?1?At the Brick Factory

?2?Tents for the Condemned

?3?Borya Elisavetsky

?4?Vorkuta, Kotlas, Kirov

?5?Russian Patriots



Photographs



NOTEBOOK6

?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!'



NOTEBOOK7

?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



NOTEBOOK8

?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



NOTEBOOK9

?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

Appendix1: Timeline of Baitalsky's Life

Appendix2: Baitalsky's Other Writings

Appendix3: Baitalsky: Obituaries and Eulogies

Appendix4: Russian Government Archival Documentation of The Mass Executions February 1937-September 1938

Appendix5: The Vorkuta Hunger Strike: What Russian Government Archives Have Revealed

Appendix6: The 1938 Executions of the Left Opposition Supporters at the Brick Factory: The Executioner's Official Report

Appendix7: Excerpts from The Official Conviction and Rehabilitation Documents of a Leader of the 1936 Vorkuta Hunger Strike and 13 Co-Defendants

Appendix8: The Moscow Trials 1936-1938

Bibliography

Index
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