Arrested voices : resurrecting the disappeared writers of the Soviet regime / Vitaly Shentalinsky ; translated by John Crowfoot ; introduction by Robert Conquest.
x, 322 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Note
Published in Great Britain under title: The KGB's literary archive; published in France under title: La parole ressuscitée dans les archives littéraires du KGB.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction / Robert Conquest -- 1. For Permanent Retention -- 2. "I Beg You to Hear Me": The File on Isaac Babel -- 3. Under the Heel: The File on Mikhail Bulgakov -- 4. At the Lubyanka -- 5. A Russian Leonardo da Vinci: The Files on Pavel Florensky -- 6. Seventh Heaven: The Files on Nina Hagen-Torn and Georgy Demidov -- 7. A Bullet in Place of a Full Stop: The File on Boris Pilnyak -- 8. Denunciation as a Literary Genre -- 9. Mandelstam Street: The Files on Osip Mandelstam -- 10. The Arrested Word: The Files on Nikolas Klyuev and Andrey Platonov -- 11. Correcting the Encyclopedias -- 12. Stormy Petrel in a Cage: The Files on Maxim Gorky -- 13. The End of the Union -- The Literary -- Political Context.
