My Papa Murdered Mikhoels.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gusarov, Vladimir.

Contributor:

Giller, Clive A.

Popov, Yuri A.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Actors--Soviet Union--Biography.

Mikhoėls, Solomon Mikhaĭlovich, 1890-1948.

Theater, Yiddish--Soviet Union--History.

Local Subjects:

Actors--Soviet Union--Biography.

Mikhoėls, Solomon Mikhaĭlovich, 1890-1948.

Theater, Yiddish--Soviet Union--History.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 p.)

Place of Publication:

Lanham : Hamilton Books, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">My Papa Murdered Mikhoels</span><span> 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.</span></span>

Contents:

Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1; 1. Prologue; 2. About Homer; 3. About father; 4. To age seventeen; 5. About mama; 6. Childhood; 7. Ideology; 8. First deviation; 9. Papa's friends; 10. Pity; 11. The whole country; 12. All-Saints and Sokol; 13. Reflections; 14. Boy with a cock; 15. Sverdlovsk; 16. Kabakov's black cat; 17. Perm; it's also Molotov; 18. He and She; 19. The theatre; 20. The other grandmother; 21. Colleagues; 22. Ignoramus; 23. 22nd June 1941; 24. Evacuees; 25. Commissar Zavirokhin; 26. A fighting friend; 27. Antselovich; 28. To the front; 29. The front

74. Amorous business75. Rumours; 76. The American Exhibition; 77. Two more years; 78. My little white pigeon; 79. From my diary; 80. A death and a funeral; 81. Ivan Denisovich; 82. Working days; 83. Chapaevsky Street; 84. Unemployed; 85. Tomsk; 86. Grandmother Fenia; 87. Nikolia-the-fool; 88. Television; 89. Zaochni Narodni Universitet Iskusstv; 90. Kashchenko; 91. In the homeland of a great writer; 92. I love you; 93. At the Ministry of Culture; 94. Aesop and the GPU (State Political Administration); 95. A page from my diary; 96. Pages from my diary; 97. In the Kremlin hospital

98. The Klyazma sanatorium99. The last lines of a confiscated diary; 100. Vasili Ivanovich Chapaev and Petka; 101. Yakir; 102. Epilogue; Chronology; Glossary; Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

0-7618-6534-9

0-7618-6535-7