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| Translator’s Note | |
| Acknowledgements | |
| Preface | |
| Introduction | |
| Navigation: Margarita’s Flight | |
| Margarita’s flight | |
| Manuscripts don’t burn | |
| A writer in 1937 | |
| Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts | |
| Dramatis personae and their portrayal, dual characters | |
| NKVD, the organization | |
| ‘People vanished from their apartments without trace’ | |
| Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle | |
| ‘That can’t be!’ | |
| Moscow As A Construction Site: Stalin’s General Plan In Action | |
| Aleksandr Medvedkin’s New Moscow | |
| A new cityscape: Stalin’s General Plan for the Reconstruction of Moscow | |
| Moscow as a construction site: between demolition and new construction | |
| Moscow beyond the Ring Roads | |
| Human landscape, struggle for survival | |
| A Topography Of The Disappeared: The Moscow Directory Of 1936 | |
| Snapshot of the status quo | |
| Directories as documents of their age | |
| Topography of power and other locations | |
| Traces of the disappeared | |
| Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses | |
| The Creation Of Enemies: The Criminal Prosecution Of The Trotskyite And Zinovievite Terrorist Centre 19-24 August 1936 | |
| World-historical criminal cases: the rhetoric of the first Moscow show trial | |
| The echo of violence: how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language | |
| ‘Double-dealers’ | |
| The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law | |
| The ideal enemy | |
| ‘Tired Of The Effort Of Observing And Understanding’: Lion Feuchtwanger’s ‘Moscow 1937’ | |
| A key scene in European intellectual history: Feuchtwanger’s meeting with Stalin | |
| The impotence of the anti-fascist movement: how to generate a point of view | |
| The end of the flâneur: journey in the shadow of the NKVD | |
| The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning: credo quia absurdum | |
| Leave-taking at Belorussky Station | |
| Inthe Glare Of Battle: Spain And Other Fronts | |
| Moscow maps: the scene is Spain | |
| A world in meltdown, war scare | |
| The Soviet nation as a patriotic fighting unit | |
| Metastases: show trial in Barcelona, the NKVD abroad | |
| Barcelona transfer: Moscow experiences | |
| Blindness And Terror: The Suppressed Census Of 1937 | |
| A journey into the interior of society | |
| 6 January 1937: snapshot of an empire | |
| Ten years after the census of 1926: balance sheet after the Great Transformation | |
| Self-analysis, self-education, data acquisition- The shock of the missing millions | |
| Statistics as crime | |
| A Stage For The Horrors Of Industrialization: The Second Moscow Show Trial In January 1937 | |
| ‘Business-like atmosphere’ | |
| The language of expert witnesses | |
| The topography of the Five-Year Plan | |
| Human sacrifice, nemesis, chorus | |
| Postscript | |
| ‘A Feast In The Time Of Plague.’ | |
| The Pushkin Jubilee Of 10 February 1937 | |
| The New York Times: ‘All Russia was Pushkin-mad today’ | |
| ‘Comrade Pushkin’: consecration of a classic | |
| A feast in the time of plague: coded discourses | |
| Platitudes of a new culture | |
| Russian genius and Imperial rule | |
| Public Death: Ordzhonikidze’s Suicide And Death Rites | |
| The shock: Sergo is dead | |
| Escape into ritual | |
| Suicide as a weapon | |
| A hopeless situation and protest | |
| Death as a group experience: speaking of death in times of mass murder | |
| The Engine Room Of The Year 1937: The February/March Plenum Of The Central Committee | |
| A leadership at its wits’ end | |
| The voice of panic | |
| Testing the limits and exceeding them: the Party indicts Bukharin and Rykov | |
| The shock: ‘universal, free, secret elections’ | |
| Audit report: ungovernability and fear of chaos | |
| Wreckers at work in the NKVD | |
| Dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one | |
| Setting the machinery in motion | |
| Moscow In Paris: The Ussr Pavilion At The International Exhibition Of 1937 | |
| The exhibition trail: a journey through the map of the Soviet Union | |
| The theme park of Twentieth Century civilization | |
| Marginal encounters | |
| Red Square: Parade Ground And Place Of Execution | |
| Chopin Concert And Killing Ritual | |
| Radio And The Creation Of The Great Community | |
| Radiofikatsia: the two faces of progress | |
| Radio as the background noise of the new age | |
| The sphere of feelings | |
| Radio listeners as ‘citizens of the world’ | |
| Stalin: the original soundtrack | |
| The direction of the historical moment | |
| Wreckers at work in the ether | |
| Soviet Art Deco. Time Preserved In Stone | |
| The First All-Union Congress of Architects, 16-26 June 1937 | |
| Moscow as a building site | |
| Chaos and stress | |
| The Soviet universe as exhibition | |
| The creation of a new style during a state of emergency | |
| Closing speech: Frank Lloyd Wright | |
| ‘Brown Bodies, Gaily Coloured Shorts’: Sports Parade | |
| ‘The glorious beauty of young people’ | |
| ‘Fizkulturnik’, ‘Fizkulturnitsa’: icons of the new age | |
| ‘Stalin’s tribe’: Tableaux vivants in Red Square | |
| Wealth And Destruction: The Seventeenth International Geology Congress In Moscow | |
| The emergence of Soviet geologists: science and the dream of an affluent nation | |
| Pioneers the nation does not need: geologists as enemies of the people | |
| Vladimir Vernadsky: A patriot without fear | |
| Excursion to the Moscow-Volga Canal: science and slave labour | |
| A City By The Sea | |
| The Opening Of The Moscow-Volga Canal | |
| After the White Sea | |
| Baltic Sea Canal: Stalin’s second arterial highway | |
| A canal as a Gesamtkunstwerk: the aesthetics of a man-made riverscape | |
| Dmitlag: the Gulag Archipelago at the gates of the capital | |
| The parallel society of the camp zone | |
| Perekovka/ Reforging: the laboratory of the new man | |
| ‘I have seen a country that has been transformed into one great camp’ | |
| Year Of Adventures 1937: A Soviet Icarus | |
| Triumphs, records: a city in a fever | |
| Non-stop to America | |
| The conquest of the Arctic | |
| Twentieth-century adventures | |
| Heroes of the age: Stalin’s aviators | |
| ‘There are thousands of dreamers like me’ | |
| ‘Bolshevik romanticism’ and terror | |
| Moscow As Shop-Window: The Abundance Of The World, Hungry For Goods And Dizzy With Hunger | |
| André Gide: On luxury and shortages | |
| Advertisements, window displays: objects of desire and how to present them | |
| Dizzy with hunger | |
| A hopeless struggle: a nation of speculators -The queue as grapevine | |
| Open Spaces, Dream Landscapes: Cruising On The Volga, Holidaying On The Red Riviera, Conspiracies In The Dachas | |
| The National Bolshevik Nikolay Ustryalov: His Return Home And Death | |
| Returning home from exile: establishing contact with the new Russia | |
| National Bolshevism and Stalin’s ‘Socialism in One Country’ | |
| The world of ‘former people’ and 1937 | |
| A double reading: a diary with comments by the NKVD | |
| Celebrating The October Revolution On 7 November 1937 | |
| In the diplomats’ box | |
| Conversations in the inner circle of power | |
| A Miniature Of High Society Before The Massacre | |
| The bombs come closer | |
| Beau monde, illustrious society | |
| Masked ball at the American Embassy | |
| Interior with piano and nursemaid | |
| Yezhov’s salon: art and the secret police | |
| Postscript: inventory of luxury and fashion | |
| Soviet Hollywood | |
| Miracles And Monsters | |
| ‘Lenin in October’: the Revolution corrected | |
| The USSR as a land of film, picture palaces and stars | |
| Mosfilm 1937: chaos in the film factory | |
| ‘Volga-Volga’: directors as conspirators, actors as spies | |
| Terror and good entertainment | |
| Death In Exile | |
| Dimitrov’s diary: a record of self-destruction | |
| Vanishing point Moscow. Biotope | |
| Foreign comrades | |
| Vulnerability: world communism as world conspiracy | |
| Lists, dossiers and card indexes | |
| Arcadia In Moscow, Stalin’s Luna Park | |
| ‘A centre of culture and rest’ | |
| ‘What a summer!’ | |
| The locus of public opinion | |
| ‘Avtozavodtsy’ | |
| The Workforce Ofthe Stalin Car Factories | |
| ‘Shanghai’: city of immigrants, city on the periphery | |
| Ivan Likhachev, captain of industry | |
| Factory patriotism: the factory as melting pot | |
| ‘Mass criticism’ or the orchestration of hatred and despair | |
| Dzhaz. The Sound Of The Thirties | |
| Dzhaz (Utyosov) | |
| Songs for the masses (Dunayevsky) | |
| Classical music (Shostakovich) | |
| Changing Faces, Changing Times | |
| America, America: The Other New World | |
| Ilya Ilf and Evgeny Petrov’s journey to America | |
| Special relations: Soviet Americanism and the New Deal | |
| The American Way of Life in 1937 | |
| Utopia as present-day reality | |
| ‘I Know Of No Other CountryÉ’ 1937 And The Creation Of Soviet Space | |
| The birth of the Soviet Union from the spirit of songs for the masses | |
| Moscow as an image-making machine | |
| Homogenizing labour: purges and the unity of the Soviet nation | |
| The Butovo Shooting Range | |
| Topography Of The Great Terror | |
| Looking for traces: the archaeology of the graveyard | |
| Mass murder on the outskirts of the city | |
| Sociology of the mass grave | |
| Killing by quota. Order No. 00447 | |
| World war, civil war | |
| ‘Lonely White SailÉ’ Dreamtime, Children’s Worlds | |
| Yezhov At The Bolshoi Theatre | |
| Celebrating 20 Years Of The Cheka | |
| At the heart of Moscow: power made visible | |
| Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders | |
| Ovations for the executioners | |
| Morituri salutant | |
| Bukharin Takes His Leave | |
| Bukharin’s final plea | |
| The show trial: exercises in dialectics | |
| The Lubyanka: prison as a production site | |
| Letter to Koba | |
| A Moscow childhood in 1900 | |
| ‘For Official Use Only’ Moscow As A City On The Enemy Map | |
| The Foundation Pit | |
| The imaginary centre | |
| A support for the Empire | |
| The dome that disappeared: Russian Byzantium | |
| Labouring away at a vacuum | |
| Fantasies of the building of the century | |
| Rome, New York, Moscow | |
| The genius of Boris Iofan | |
| War, post-war, and the end of the state of emergency | |
| Instead Of An Epilogue | |
| Notes | |
| Bibliography | |
| List Of Illustrations | |
| Index | |
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