Published: Polity, 2012
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1 online resource (xix, 652 pages) : illustrations, maps (some color)
Contents:
“…Navigation : Margarita's flight -- Moscow as a construction site : Stalin's general plan in action -- A topography of the disappeared : the Moscow directory of 1936 -- The creation of enemies : the criminal prosecution of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite
Terrorist Center, 19-24 August 1936 -- "Tired of the effort of observing and understanding" : Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937 -- In the glare of battle : Spain and other fronts -- Blindness and terror : the suppressed census of 1937 -- A stage for the horrors of industrialization : the second Moscow show trial in January 1937 -- "A feast in the time of plague" : the Pushkin jubilee of 10 February 1937 -- Public death : Ordzhonikidze's suicide and death rites -- The engine room of the year 1937 : the February-March plenum of the Central Committee -- Moscow in Paris : the USSR pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937 -- Red Square : parade ground and place of execution -- Chopin concert and killing ritual : radio and the creation of the great community -- Soviet art deco : time preserved in stone -- "Brown bodies, gaily coloured shorts" : sports parade -- Wealth and destruction : the Seventeenth International Geology Congress in Moscow -- A city by the sea : the opening of the Moscow-Volga Canal -- Year of adventures, 1937 : a Soviet Icarus -- Moscow as shop-window : the abundance of the world, hungry for goods and dizzy with hunger -- Open spaces, dream landscapes : cruising on the Volga, holidaying on the Red Riviera, conspiracies in the Dachas -- The national Bolshevik Nikolai Ustrialov : his return home and death -- Celebrating the October revolution on 7 November 1937 -- A miniature of high society before the massacre -- Soviet Hollywood : miracles and monsters -- Death in exile -- Arcadia in Moscow : Stalin's Luna Park -- "Avtozavodtsy" : the workforce of the Stalin car factories -- Dzhaz : the sound of the thirties -- Dzhaz (Utesov) -- Changing faces, changing times -- America, America : the other new world -- "I know of no other country ..." : 1937 and the production of Soviet space -- The Butovo shooting range : topography of the great terror -- Lonely white sail ... : dreamtime, children's worlds -- Yezhov at the Bolshoi Theatre : celebrating twenty years of the Cheka -- Bukharin takes his leave -- 'For official use only' : Moscow as a city on the enemy map -- The foundation pit -- Instead of an epilogue.…”
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