The Unquiet Ghost
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The Unquiet Ghost

Russians Remember Stalin

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eBook - ePub

The Unquiet Ghost

Russians Remember Stalin

About this book

An in-depth exploration of the legacy of Joseph Stalin on the former Soviet Union, by the author of King Leopold's Ghost.

Although some twenty million people died during Stalin's reign of terror, only with the advent of glasnost did Russians begin to confront their memories of that time. In 1991, Adam Hochschild spent nearly six months in Russia talking to gulag survivors, retired concentration camp guards, and countless others. The result is a riveting evocation of a country still haunted by the ghost of Stalin.

A New York Times Notable Book

"An important contribution to our awareness of the former Soviet Union's harrowing past and unsettling present." — Los Angeles Times  

"A perceptive, intelligent book demonstrating that the significance of the gulag transcends the confines of one country and one generation." — The  New York Times Book Review

"This probing and sensitive book…casts striking new light upon the Russian past and present." — The  Washington Post Book World 

"The voices [Hochschild] has recorded, the relics he has seen, are haunting—and the raw material of a terrific book." —David Remnick, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Lenin's Tomb

"No other work has brought home the full horror of this monstrous dictator's rule than this close-up account." —Daniel Schorr, former senior news analyst, National Public Radio

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Information

Publisher
Mariner Books
Year
2020
eBook ISBN
9780547524979
Topic
History
Subtopic
Russian History
Index
History

Index

Page numbers in italic type indicate illustrations.

Abakumov, Victor, [>]
Adonis XIV (film), [>]–[>]
Afanasiev, Yuri, [>], [>], [>]
African slave trade, [>]
Airplane flights, local, [>]
Akhmatova, Anna, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
Aksyonov, Vassily, [>]
The Burn, [>], [>]
Alliluyeva, Nadezhda, [>]
Americans:
KGB and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
as prisoners, [>], [>]
Andropov, Yuri, [>]–[>]
Anti-Semitism, [>]
Arctic railroad, [>]–[>]
Arrests, [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
avoidance of, [>]
NKVD and, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
Atlis, Miron Markovich, [>]–[>], [>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>]–[>], [>], [>]
At-Uryakh (labor camp), [>]
Avvakum (Archpriest), [>]

Babel, Isaac, [>]
Babies born in prisons, [>]
Belonging, Purge victims and, [>]–[>]
Berdyayev (philosopher), [>]
Berezhkov, Valentin, [>]–[>], [>]
Berggolts, Olga, [>]
Beria, Lavrenti, [>], [>], [>], [>]–[>]
Biryukov, Alexander, [>]–[>]
The Bison, Granin, [>]
Bolshakov, I. I., [>]
Bolsheviks, [>]–[>], [>], [>]
orphaned children of, [>]–[>]
show trials, [>]–[>]
Bolshevism, and Stalinism, [>]
Borisov, Yu. S., [>]
Bremerberg, Pyotr Christopherovich, [>]
Brezhnev, Leonid, [>]
Brusski, Panfyorov, [>]
Buber, Margarete, [>], [>]
Bukharin, Nikolai, [>]–[>]
Bureaucracy, [>]–[>], [>]–[>]
The Burn, Aksyonov, [>], [>]
Butugychag (labor camp), [>]–[>]

Camp Expeditsiony, [>]
Cheka, [>], [>]–[>]
See also Secret police
Chekhov, Anton, [>], [>], [>]
Cheremsha, [>]
Chuchelo (Scarecrow) (fil...

Table of contents

  1. Title Page
  2. Table of Contents
  3. Frontispiece
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Preface
  7. Major Events in 20th-Century Russian and Soviet History
  8. The Great Silence
  9. MOSCOW I
  10. Father and Son
  11. The Uses of Memory
  12. To See Things As They Are
  13. SIBERIA I
  14. “Why Are We Weeping?”
  15. Lunch with the Colonel
  16. Souls Living and Dead
  17. MOSCOW II
  18. Believers
  19. “The Stalin in Us”
  20. Beyond Black and White
  21. Paths Not Taken
  22. “The Interrogation Has Been Interrupted”
  23. Library of Death
  24. An Empty Field
  25. SIBERIA II
  26. Secrets of the Riverbank
  27. Two Fathers, Two Daughters
  28. Shark and Angel
  29. THE DARK SIDE OF THE MOON
  30. Beyond the Pole Star
  31. The Inmost Circle
  32. The Power of Facing Unpleasant Facts
  33. Port of Arrival
  34. Bibliography and Acknowledgments
  35. Index
  36. About the Author