Chapters in this book

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