Notebooks for the grandchildren : recollections of a supporter of the Marxist opposition to Stalin who survived the Stalin terror / by Mikhail Baitalsky ; translated and edited by Marilyn Vogt-Downey.
Rodzaj materiału:
TekstSerie: Historical materialism book series ; volume 335Opis: pages cmTyp zawartości: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9789004316096
- Recollections of a supporter of the Marxist opposition to Stalin who survived the Stalin
- Baĭtalʹskiĭ, M., 1903-1978
- Vorkuta (Komi, Russia : Concentration camp)
- Political prisoners -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Ukrainians -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Jews -- Soviet Union -- Biography
- Political persecution -- Soviet Union
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1925-1953
- Soviet Union -- History -- 1953-1985
- Odesa (Ukraine) -- Biography
- DK268.B277 A3 2024
Książki
| Obecna biblioteka | Sygnatura | Status | Kod kreskowy | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Biblioteka Instytutu Solidarności i Męstwa im. W. Pileckiego | 21828 (Przeglądaj półkę(Otwórz poniżej)) | Dostępny | 00021828 |
"A previous English translation of the book, titled "Notebooks for the Grandchildren: Recollections of a Trotskyist Who Survived the Stalin Terror," was published by Humanities Press in 1996, translated and edited by Marilyn Vogt-Downey, with ISBN 9780391038295."
Includes bibliographical references and index.
"These Notebooks are for you who are generations away from the great Russian Revolution of 1917 and seek to understand what went wrong. Baitalsky describes the process through the eyes of young Ukrainians like him, who came of age fighting for the Revolution but were murdered in the late 1930s as the Revolution "degenerated" under Joseph Stalin. How did Stalin come to power and manage to retain power? What did this "political counterrevolution" look like to this Ukrainian--and Jewish--communist in the 1920s and after? Arrested three times by the Stalin regime, Baitalsky survived to tell you what happened"--