Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Figures ix
4. Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction: Rogues and Writers 3
6. Wartime Autobiographies
7. Ehrenburg’s and Shklovsky’s Autobiographies as Self-Effacement 31
8. Travels and Travails in Julio Jurenito and A Sentimental Journey 55
9. The Nep-Era Rogue and the Idea of Soviet Literature
10. From Odessa to Petrograd: The Cosmopolitan Rogue in the Red Republic of Letters 79
11. Grabber, Kynik, and Thief: The Rogue Gets to Business 105
12. The Soviet Picaresque and The Stalinist Rogue
13. Travelling and Building Stalin’s Soviet Union 131
14. “In Every Life There Is at Least One Interesting Plot”: Narrating Reforging 166
15. Conclusion: The Picaresque and the Ways of the World 187
16. Notes 197
17. Bibliography 249
18. Index 275