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Notebooks for the grandchildren : recollections of a supporter of the Marxist opposition to Stalin who survived the Stalin terror / Mikhail Baitalsky ; translated and edited by Marilyn Vogt-Downey.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Baitalsky, Mikhail, author.
- Series:
- Historical materialism book series ; Volume 335.
- Historical Materialism Book Series ; Volume 335
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Baĭtalʹskiĭ, M., 1903-1978.
- Baĭtalʹskiĭ, M.
- Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp).
- Political prisoners--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Political prisoners.
- Ukrainians--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Ukrainians.
- Jews--Soviet Union--Biography.
- Jews.
- Political persecution--Soviet Union.
- Political persecution.
- Soviet Union--History--1925-1953.
- Soviet Union.
- Soviet Union--History--1953-1985.
- Odesa (Ukraine)--Biography.
- Odesa (Ukraine).
- Genre:
- Autobiographies
- Biographies
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (607 pages)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden, The Netherlands : Brill, [2025]
- Summary:
- These memoirs are the only record of the lives and work of young revolutionaries in Ukraine who supported the Russian Revolution in 1917, fought to defend it throughout the 1920s, but were murdered by Stalin for supporting the Left Opposition.
- Contents:
- Front Cover
- Half-Title Page
- Series Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- Foreword
- Acknowledgements
- Maps and Figures
- Glossary
- Introductory Comments
- Translator's Note
- A Brief Chronology of the Russian Revolution and Its Aftermath
- Translator's Introduction
- Notebooks for the Grandchildren
- Preliminary Remarks: The 1920s and the 1970s
- Notebook 1
- 1. The Komsomol's 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 Komsomol
- 7. A Few Remarks about the Language of the Times
- Notebook 2
- 8. How It Was and How It Became
- 9. The Family of an Odessa Tailor
- 10. Ideological Commitment and Calvinism
- 11. I Saw My Homeland
- 12. Friendship with Grisha
- 13. Days and Evenings without Romance
- 14. Cain, Abel and the 'Platform of the 83'
- 15. The View from the Window of Cell No. 9
- Notebook 3
- 16. I Make the Worst Choice
- 17. My First Arrest
- 18. A Year of Successes in Astrakhan
- 19. I Could Have Remained Silent about This as Well
- 20. Features of the New Order
- 21. More about Boris and the Features of the Time
- Notebook 4
- 22. Holy and Unholy Work
- 23. My Second Arrest
- 24. 'We Know All about You'
- 25. Butyrka Humanism
- 26. Becoming Acquainted with Vorkuta
- Notebook 5
- 27. At the Brick Factory
- 28. Tents for the Condemned
- 29. Borya Elisavetsky
- 30. Vorkuta, Kotlas, Kirov
- 31. Russian Patriots
- Photographs
- Notebook 6
- 32. They Even Found Me Here
- 33. My Co-Butyrnik
- 34. You Don't Get Something for Nothing
- 35. A Credo on the Subject of Wages
- 36. The Scream of a Woman in the Corridor
- 37. 'Consider Yourself Lucky!'
- Notebook 7.
- 38. Distinguishing Padding from Content
- 39. I End Up in the First Circle
- 40. We Delve into the Psalms of the New David
- 41. The Cunning Machine of the Special Judicial Sessions
- 42. Conversations in the Main Alley
- Notebook 8
- 43. To Vorkuta for the Second Time
- 44. To Each His Own
- 45. Even Those Who Were Deported Are Voting
- 46. Joseph Rakhmetov
- 47. A Period of Camp Liberalisation
- 48. A Puddle with a Watchtower on Its Shore
- Notebook 9
- 49. Meaningless Yackers Fall in Line
- 50. Vorkuta - My Alma Mater
- 51. The Poisonous Weapon of Hushing Things Up
- 52. Love and Hatred
- 53. On Very Ordinary Honesty
- 54. I Hope for an Echo
- Translator's Postscript
- Appendix 1. Timeline of Baitalsky's Life
- Appendix 2. Baitalsky's Other Writings
- Appendix 3. Baitalsky: Obituaries and Eulogies
- Appendix 4. Russian Government Archival Documentation of the Mass Executions by Stalin's Regime February 1937-September 1938
- Appendix 5. The Vorkuta Hunger Strike: What Russian Government Archives Have Revealed
- Appendix 6. The 1938 Executions of the Left Opposition Supporters at the Brick Factory: The Executioner's Official Report
- Appendix 7. Excerpts from the Official Conviction and Rehabilitation Documents of a Leader of the 1936 Vorkuta Hunger Strike and 13 Co-defendants
- Appendix 8. The Moscow Trials 1936-38
- Sources Consulted
- Index
- Back Cover.
- Notes:
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9789004707832
- 9004707832
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