Title Statements
- Full title :Moscow, 1937 / Karl Schlögel ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:c2012.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Polity
- Place of Publication:Cambridge
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:c2012.
Notes
Translation of: Terror und Traum. Moscau 1937.
Map on lining papers.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (xix, 652 pages : : illustrations, color maps)
Edition Identifiers
- oclc:on1319421864
- LC Classification:DK267
- Dewey Decimal:947.310842
Table of Contents
Margarita's flight : Manuscripts don't burn. A writer in 1937 -- Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts -- Dramatis personae and their portrayal, dual characters -- NKVD, the organization -- "People vanished from their apartments without trace" -- Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle -- 'That can't be!' -- Aleksandr Medvedkin's New Moscow- A new cityscape: Stalin's General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow -- Moscow as a construction site: between demolition and new construction -- Moscow beyond the Ring Roads -- Human landscape, struggle for survival -- Snapshot of the status quo. Directories as documents of their age -- Topography of power and other locations -- Traces of the disappeared -- Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses -- World-historical criminal cases: the rhetoric of the first Moscow show trial -- The echo of violence: how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language -- 'Double-dealers' -- The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law -- The ideal enemy -- A key scene in European intellectual history: Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin -- The impotence of the anti-fascist movement: how to g…
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