Koba the Dread

by Amis, Martin

• ISBN13: 9780786868766
• ISBN10: 0786868767
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-07-17
• Publisher: Miamax

Summary

In "Koba"--the word itself a childhood nickname of Stalin's--Amis is compelled, through his scathing prose and razor-sharp insight, to reevaluate the eras of Lenin and Stalin and the unbelievably broad scope of human suffering the two men caused.

Author Biography

Martin Amis is the best-selling author of several books. He lives in London

Table of Contents

PART I The Collapse of the Value of Human Life	1	(94)
Preparatory
Credentials
Background
More Background
The Politicization of Sleep
More Background
Ten Theses on Ilyich
Who-Whom?
Insecure: More Background
The Collapse of the Value of Human Life in Practice---1
Nicholas the Last
The Collapse of the Value of Human Life in Practice---2
Getting to the Other Planet
The Epic Agony of the Gulag
The Isolator
The New Men
The Little Mustache and the Big Mustache
PART II Iosif the Terrible: Short Course	95	(148)
Census
Georgia
Demian Bedny
The Gray Blur, the Yellow Eyes
The Kremlin Complexion
Rhythms of Thought
Succession
Theory
The Second October and the Breaking of the Peasantry
Women
Men and Mountains
1933: The Terror-Famine
Poison Pen
Heavy Industry
Kazakhstan
Congress of Victors---1
Prolonged and Stormy Applause
Congress of Victors---2
Kolyma Tales
The Kirov Murder
Children
Reason and the Great Terror---1
Show Trial
Reason and the Great Terror---2
Interventions
Voices from the Yezhovshchina
Ech...
In the nightmare of the dark / All the dogs of Europe bark
Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya
The Taste Inside Stalin's Mouth
Bolshevik Bravery
It loves blood / The Russian earth
The Saddest Story
Into the Sere
The Bedbug
End
Negative Perfection
PART III When We Dead Awaken	243	(40)
Letter to a Friend
The Beginnings of the Search for Decorum
Butyrki Nights
The Forty Days of Kengir
As the stars are known to the Night
Afterword: Letter to My Father's Ghost
Index	283