Notebooks for the Grandchildren

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

Mikhail Baitalsky (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

612 Seiten

2024
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-31609-6 (ISBN)

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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.

These Notebooks are for you who are generations away from the great Russian Revolution of 1917 and seek to understand what went wrong.

Baitalsky describes the process through the eyes of young Ukrainians like him, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s as the Revolution “degenerated” under Joseph Stalin. How did Stalin come to power and manage to retain power? What did this “political counterrevolution” look like to this Ukrainian–and Jewish–communist In the 1920s and after?

Arrested three times by the Stalin regime, Baitalsky survived to tell you what happened.

Marilyn Vogt-Downey translated for the Pathfinder Press Writings of Leon Trotsky series (1970s), Samizdat: Voices of the Soviet Opposition (Pathfinder in 1974), The Bulletin in Defense of Marxism (1990s) and The USSR 1987-1991: Marxists Perspectives (Humanity Books, 1993).

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

Erscheinungsdatum	30.08.2024
Reihe/Serie	Historical Materialism Book Series ; 335
Übersetzer	Marilyn Vogt-Downey
Verlagsort	Leiden
Sprache	englisch
Maße	155 x 235 mm
Gewicht	1 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
	Literatur ► Briefe / Tagebücher
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Theorie
ISBN-10	90-04-31609-4 / 9004316094
ISBN-13	978-90-04-31609-6 / 9789004316096
Zustand	Neuware