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OverviewThese 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. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Mikhail Baitalsky , Marilyn Vogt-Downey , Marilyn Vogt-DowneyPublisher: Brill Imprint: Brill Volume: 335 Weight: 0.001kg ISBN: 9789004316096ISBN 10: 9004316094 Pages: 612 Publication Date: 28 November 2024 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Forthcoming Availability: Not yet available  This item is yet to be released. You can pre-order this item and we will dispatch it to you upon its release. Table of ContentsForeword 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 IndexReviews“These Notebooks are an incredibly rich source of information, insight and inspiration about the nature and meaning of the Russian Revolution -- and of its betrayal. Baitalsky's thoughtfulness and honesty, and his heroic persistence in the face of horrific repression, stand as an enduring testament to the human spirit.” —— Paul Le Blanc, author of Lenin: Responding to Catastrophe, Forging Revolution (Pluto Press); editorial board member, The Complete Works of Rosa Luxemburg(Verso); Professor of History, La Roche University (Pittsburgh) “[Baitalsky is] one of the most remarkable samizdat writers of the 1960s and 1970s.” —— Stephen F. Cohen, author of Bukharin and the Bolshevik Revolution: A Political Biography, 1888–1938; former Professor of Politics and Russian Studies, Princeton University “Baitalsky’s Notebooks are a vital contribution to our knowledge of the Soviet Gulag, one of the largest and longest-lasting systems of forced labour in modern history. Not only is Baitalsky a keen observer, he offers the unusual perspective of an unrepentant Trotskyist. His multiple stints in the Gulag are richly recalled in Vogt-Downey’s masterful translation.” —— Alan Barenberg, author of The Gulag: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press); Associate Professor, Texas Tech University Author InformationMarilyn 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). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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