Karl Schlögel

Moscow, 1937

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Produktbeschreibung

Moscow, 1937: the soviet metropolis at the zenith of Stalin'sdictatorship. A society utterly wrecked by a hurricane ofviolence. In this compelling book, the renowned historian Karl Schlögelreconstructs with meticulous care the process through which, monthby month, the terrorism of a state-of-emergency regime spiraledinto the 'Great Terror' during which 1 ½ millionhuman beings lost their lives within a single year. He revisits thesites of show trials and executions and, by also consultingnumerous sources from the time, he provides a masterful panorama ofthese key events in Russian history.He shows how, in the shadow of the reign of terror, the regimearound Stalin also aimed to construct a new society. Based oncountless documents, Schlögel's historical masterpiecevividly presents an age in which the boundaries separating thedream and the terror dissolve, and enables us to experience thefear that was felt by people subjected to totalitarian rule. Thisrich and absorbing account of the Soviet purges will be essentialreading for all students of Russia and for any readers interestedin one of the most dramatic and disturbing events of modernhistory.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Wiley & Sons
• 1. Auflage
• Seitenzahl: 650
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 226mm x 151mm x 50mm
• Gewicht: 1001g
• ISBN-13: 9780745650777
• ISBN-10: 0745650775
• Artikelnr.: 39764570

Autorenporträt

KARL SCHLÖGEL is Professor of Eastern European History at the European University Viadrina in Frankfurt. Moscow, 1937 was awarded the Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding in 2009.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface x Acknowledgements xiii Reproduction Acknowledgements xvii Translator's Note xx Introduction 1 1 Navigation: Margarita's Flight 10 Margarita's fl ight
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
'It can't be!' 2 Moscow as a Construction Site: Stalin's General Plan in Action 33 Aleksandr Medvedkin's film 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 3 A Topography of the Disappeared: The Moscow Directory of 1936 54 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 4 The Creation of Enemies: The Criminal Prosecution of the Trotskyite
Zinovievite Terrorist Centre, 19
24 August 1936 68 World
historical criminal cases: the rhetoric of the fi rst 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 5 'Tired of the Effort of Observing and Understanding': Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937 81 A key scene in European intellectual history: Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin
The impotence of the anti
fascist movement: how to generate a point of view
The end of the fl âneur: journey in the shadow of the NKVD
The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning: credo quia absurdum
Leave
taking at Belorusskii Station 6 In the Glare of Battle: Spain and Other Fronts 95 Moscow maps: the scene is Spain
A world in meltdown, war scare
The Soviet nation as a patriotic fi ghting unit
Metastases: show trial in Barcelona, the NKVD abroad
Barcelona transfer: Moscow experiences 7 Blindness and Terror: The Suppressed Census of 1937 109 A journey into the interior of society
6 January 1937: snapshot of an empire
Ten years after the census of 1926: balance sheet after the Great Leap Forward
Self
analysis, self
education, data acquisition
The shock of the missing millions
Statistics as crime 8 A Stage for the Horrors of Industrialization: The Second Moscow Show Trial in January 1937 125 'The Business
like atmosphere'
The language of expert witnesses
The topography of the Five
Year Plan
Human sacrifi ce, nemesis, chorus
Postscript 9 'A Feast in the Time of Plague': The Pushkin Jubilee of 10 February 1937 144 The New York Times: 'All Russia was Pushkin
mad today'
'Comrade Pushkin': consecration of a classic
A feast in the time of plague: coded discourses
Platitudes of a new culture
Russian genius and imperial rule 10 Public Death: Ordzhonikidze's Suicide and Death Rites 160 The shock: Sergo is dead
Escape into ritual
Suicide as a weapon
A hopeless situation and protest
Death as a group experience: speaking of death in times of mass murder 11 The Engine Room of the Year 1937: The February
March Plenum of the Central Committee 177 A leadership at its wits' end: the voice of panic
Testing the limits and exceeding them: the Party indicts Bukharin and Rykov
The shock: 'universal, free, secret elections'
Audit report: ungovernability and fear of chaos
Wreckers at work in the NKVD
The dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one
Setting the machinery in motion 12 Moscow in Paris: The USSR Pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937 198 The exhibition trail: a journey through the map of the Soviet Union
The theme park of twentieth
century civilization
Marginal encounters 13 Red Square: Parade Ground and Place of Execution 209 14 Chopin Concert and Killing Ritual: Radio and the Creation of the Great Community 215 Radiofi katsia: the two faces of progress
Radio as the background noise of the new age
The sphere of feelings
Radio listeners as 'citizens of the world'
Stalin: the original soundtrack: the direction of the historical moment
Wreckers at work in the ether 15 Soviet Art Deco: Time Preserved in Stone 229 The First All
Union Congress of Architects, 16
26 June 1937
Moscow as a building site
Chaos and stress
The Soviet universe as exhibition
The creation of a new style during a state of emergency
Closing speech: Frank Lloyd Wright 16 'Brown Bodies, Gaily Coloured Shorts': Sports Parade 248 'The glorious beauty of young people'
Fizkul'turnik, fi zkul'turnitsa: icons of the new age
'Stalin's tribe': tableaux vivants in Red Square 17 Wealth and Destruction: The Seventeenth International Geology Congress in Moscow 256 The emergence of Soviet geologists: science and the dream of an affluent nation
Pioneers the nation does not need: geologists as enemies of the people
Vladimir Vernadskii: a patriot without fear
Excursion to the Moscow
Volga Canal: science and slave labour 18 A City by the Sea: The Opening of the Moscow
Volga Canal 274 After the White Sea Canal: Stalin's second arterial highway
A canal as a Gesamtkunstwerk: the aesthetics of a man
made riverscape
Dmitlag, the Gulag Archipelago at the gates of the capital: the parallel society of the camp zone
Perekovka/ reforging: the laboratory of the new man
'I have seen a country that has been transformed into one great camp' 19 Year of Adventures, 1937: A Soviet Icarus 294 Triumphs, records: a city in a fever
Non
stop to America
The conquest of the Arctic
Twentieth
century adventures
Heroes of the age: Stalin's aviators
'There are thousands of dreamers like me'
'Bolshevik romanticism' and terror 20 Moscow as Shop
Window: The Abundance of the World, Hungry for Goods and Dizzy with Hunger 314 André Gide: on luxury and shortages
Advertisements, window displays: objects of desire and how to present them
Dizzy with hunger
A hopeless struggle: a nation of speculators
The queue as grapevine 21 Open Spaces, Dream Landscapes: Cruising on the Volga, Holidaying on the Red Riviera, Conspiracies in the Dachas 326 22 The National Bolshevik Nikolai Ustrialov: His Return Home and Death 332 Returning home from exile: establishing contact with the new Russia
National Bolshevism and Stalin's 'Socialism in One Country'
The world of 'former people' and 1937
A double reading: a diary with comments by the NKVD 23 Celebrating the October Revolution on 7 November 1937 344 In the diplomats' box
Conversations in the inner circle of power 24 A Miniature of High Society before the Massacre 355 The bombs come closer
Beau monde, illustrious society
Masked ball at the American Embassy
Interior with piano and nursemaid
Yezhov's salon: art and the secret police
Postscript: inventory of luxury and fashion 25 Soviet Hollywood: Miracles and Monsters 372 Lenin in October: the Revolution corrected
The USSR as a land of film, picture palaces and stars
Mosfi lm 1937: chaos in the film factory
Volga
Volga: directors as conspirators, actors as spies
Terror and good entertainment 26 Death in Exile 387 Dimitrov's diary: a record of self
destruction
Vanishing point Moscow: biotope
Foreign comrades
Vulnerability: world communism as world conspiracy
Lists, dossiers and card indexes 27 Arcadia in Moscow: Stalin's Luna Park 404 'A centre of culture and rest'
'What a summer!'
The locus of public opinion 28 'Avtozavodtsy': The Workforce of the Stalin Car Factories 413 'Shanghai': city of immigrants, city on the periphery
Ivan Likhachev, captain of industry
Factory patriotism: the factory as melting pot
'Mass criticism', or the orchestration of hatred and despair 29 Dzhaz: The Sound of the Thirties 433 Dzhaz (Utesov)
Songs for the masses (Dunaevskii)
Classical music (Shostakovich) 30 Changing Faces, Changing Times 444 31 America, America: The Other New World 450 Ili' a Il' f and Evgenii Petrov's journey to America
Special relations: Soviet Americanism and the New Deal
The American way of life in 1937
Utopia as present
day reality 32 'I Know of No Other Country . . .': 1937 and the Production of Soviet Space 463 The birth of the Soviet Union from the spirit of songs for the masses
Moscow as an image
making machine
Homogenizing labour: purges and the unity of the Soviet nation 33 The Butovo Shooting Range: Topography of the Great Terror 472 Looking for traces: the archaeology of the graveyard
Mass murder on the outskirts of the city
Sociology of the mass grave
Killing by quota: Order No. 00447
World war, civil war 34 Lonely White Sail . . .: Dreamtime, Children's Worlds 505 35 Yezhov at the Bolshoi Theatre: Celebrating Twenty Years of the Cheka 510 At the heart of Moscow: power made visible
Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders
Ovations for the executioners: morituri salutant 36 Bukharin Takes his Leave 519 Bukharin's final plea
The show trial: exercises in dialectics
The Lubianka: prison as a production site
Letter to Koba
A Moscow childhood in 1900 37 'For Official Use Only': Moscow as a City on the Enemy Map 538 38 The Foundation Pit 544 The imaginary centre: a support for the empire
The dome that disappeared: Russian Byzantium
Labouring away at a vacuum: fantasies of the building of the century
Rome, New York, Moscow: the genius of Boris Iofan
War, post
war, and the end of the state of emergency 39 Instead of an Epilogue 558 Notes 559 Select Bibliography 619 Index 638