30. “Sir, You Are Dripping Snow on My Floors!”

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction xi
5. The Meeting 3
6. PART 1. Before
7. 1. Never Again 11
8. 2. The Established Order 18
9. 3. The Future of the Worldwide Proletariat Is More Important than One’s Career! 26
10. 4. The Fugitive 36
11. 5. Secret Agent 43
12. 6. Let Them Stuff Themselves with Caviar! They Won’t Grow Old! 59
13. 7. Early Indications of an Announced Arrest 69
14. 8. The Trap 77
15. PART 2. During
16. 9. From the Dog House to the Train Station 89
17. 10. We Don’t Torture Foreigners 99
18. 11. Confess, Filthy Fascist! 106
19. 12. On Interrogations 113
20. 13. Everyday Life at the Butyrka Prison 120
21. 14. The Story of a Blind Man and Coffee with Milk 128
22. 15. The Verdict: Now We’re Going to Put into Practice Marxist-Leninist Theory 136
23. 16. Destination Unknown 142
24. 17. Transit: May Your Memory Be Your Only Travel Bag! 150
25. 18. An Operatic Voice on the Yenisei 158
26. 19. Dudinka: The End of the World 168
27. 20. The Polar Night 175
28. 21. Surviving 184
29. 22. Yes, I Am a Communist and You Are Too; Only Between Us There Is Barbed Wire 192
30. 23. How Jacques the Frenchman Ceased to Be a Communist 200
31. 24. The Friends of the People 207
32. 25. Continuing in Spite of Oneself 215
33. 26. The Rebel: The First Hunger Strike 226
34. 27. In the Central Prison of Alexandrovsk 233
35. 28. The Beginning of the End 241
36. 29. “I Choose Samarkand” 249
37. PART 3. After
38. 30. “Sir, You Are Dripping Snow on My Floors!” 261
39. 31. In Central Asia: The Man Who Came from a Country with No Collective Farms 270
40. 32. To Comrade Khrushchev [Stop] I Jacques Rossi [Stop] a Free Citizen [Stop] Am Starting a Hunger Strike [Stop] with No Time Limit and Until Death 279
41. 33. Communist Poland: Origins of The Gulag Handbook 288
42. 34. Seeing Paris Again 295
43. 35. Life after Communism 305
44. IN PLACE OF AN EPILOGUE: Paris, Autumn 2001
45. Afterword to the English Edition: A Man of Secrets 325
46. Notes 331
47. Index 339