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Revealing the Intimate
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction xi
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Part I. Memoirs and Diaries Published at The End of The Soviet Epoch: An Overview
- Publishers, Authors, Texts, Reader, Corpus 1
- The Background: Memoir Writing and Historical Consciousness 9
- Connecting the “I” and History 15
- Revealing the Intimate 17
- Building a Community 24
- Writing at the End 41
- Qualification: The “I” in Quotation Marks 49
- Excursus: Readers Respond in LiveJournal 51
- Concluding Remarks 55
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Part II. Two Texts: Close Readings
- 1. Lidiia Chukovskaia’s Diary of Anna Akhmatova’s Life: “Intimacy and Terror” 57
- 2. The Notebooks of the Peasant Evgeniia Kiseleva: “The War Separated Us Forever” 118
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Part III. Dreams of Terror: Interpretations
- Comments on Dreams as Stories and as Sources 161
- Andrei Arzhilovsky: The Peasant Raped by Stalin 166
- Nikolai Bukharin Dreams of Stalin: Abraham and Isaac 171
- Writers’ Dreams: Mikhail Prishvin 172
- Writers’ Dreams: Veniamin Kaverin 182
- The Dreams of Anna Akhmatova 187
- A Comment on Writers’ and Peasants’ Theories of Dreams 194
- A Philosopher’s Dreams: Yakov Druskin 197
- Stalin’s Dream 203
- Concluding Remarks 205
- Conclusion 209
- Epilogue 211
- Appendix: Russian Texts 213
- Notes 259
- Index 279
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents v
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction xi
-
Part I. Memoirs and Diaries Published at The End of The Soviet Epoch: An Overview
- Publishers, Authors, Texts, Reader, Corpus 1
- The Background: Memoir Writing and Historical Consciousness 9
- Connecting the “I” and History 15
- Revealing the Intimate 17
- Building a Community 24
- Writing at the End 41
- Qualification: The “I” in Quotation Marks 49
- Excursus: Readers Respond in LiveJournal 51
- Concluding Remarks 55
-
Part II. Two Texts: Close Readings
- 1. Lidiia Chukovskaia’s Diary of Anna Akhmatova’s Life: “Intimacy and Terror” 57
- 2. The Notebooks of the Peasant Evgeniia Kiseleva: “The War Separated Us Forever” 118
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Part III. Dreams of Terror: Interpretations
- Comments on Dreams as Stories and as Sources 161
- Andrei Arzhilovsky: The Peasant Raped by Stalin 166
- Nikolai Bukharin Dreams of Stalin: Abraham and Isaac 171
- Writers’ Dreams: Mikhail Prishvin 172
- Writers’ Dreams: Veniamin Kaverin 182
- The Dreams of Anna Akhmatova 187
- A Comment on Writers’ and Peasants’ Theories of Dreams 194
- A Philosopher’s Dreams: Yakov Druskin 197
- Stalin’s Dream 203
- Concluding Remarks 205
- Conclusion 209
- Epilogue 211
- Appendix: Russian Texts 213
- Notes 259
- Index 279