The Russian Century
The Russian Century
A Hundred Years of Russian Lives
Edited by George Pahomov Nickolas Lupinin
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Contents
Acknowledgementsv
Introductionvii
Glossary of Russian Termsxi
PART I THE VANISHED PRESENCE: RUSSIA
BEFORE 19141
Viktor Chernov, Idylls on the Volga3
Sergei N. Durylin, Domestic Love18
Sofiia Kovalevskaia, A Thief in the House28
Oleg Pantiukhov, A Student’s Summer41
Aleksandra Tyrkova-Williams, A Woman’s Autonomy54
Nikolai Volkov-Muromtsev, Memoirs64
Vladimir Zenzinov, Coming of Age74
Vasilii Nikiforov-Volgin, Presanctified Gifts88
Mark Vishniak, In Two Worlds95
Konstantin Paustovskii, Commencement Revelry103 PART II INSTABILITY AND DISLOCATION: 1914–1929111
Georgii Altaev, How I Became a Cub Scout113
Nikolai Filatov, A Soldier’s Letters120
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Konstantin Paustovskii, Save Your Strength130
Roman Gul, We’re in Power Now139
Sergei Mamontov, Civil War: A White Army Journal144
Vera Volkonskaia, Orphaned by Revolution155
Mikhail Gol’dshtein, My First Recital168
Viktor Kravchenko, Youth in the Red173
Vasilii Ianov, The Heart of a Peasant181
PART III UNRELENTING ORDER AND TERROR:
1930–1953189
B. Brovtsyn, Dearly Beloved191
Tat’iana Fesenko, Internal Dissenter199
Nila Magidoff, Only to Travel! Only to Live!210
Tat’iana Fesenko, War-Scorched Kiev225
Elena I. Kochina, Blockade Diary236
N. Ianevich, Literary Politics251
K. Vadot, The Terrorist259
PART IV APOGEE AND FRACTURE: 1954–1991265
Mariia Shapiro, A Soviet Capitalist267
Valerii Leviatov, My Path to God273
Valentin Kataev, A Paschal Memory282
Kirill Kostsinskii [K.V. Uspenskii], A Dissident’s Trial285