Sheila Fitzpatrick – Yuri Slezkine, editors. In the Shadow of Revolution.

CONTENTS

PREFACE

INTRODUCTION

Sheila Fitzpatrick, Lives and Times

Yuri Slezkine, Lives as Tales

PART I

Civil War as a Way of Life (1917–1920)

1 – Ekaterina Olitskaia, My Reminiscences (1)

2 – Anna Litveiko, In 1917

3 – P. E. Melgunova-Stepanova, Where Laughter Is Never Heard

4 – Anna Andzhievskaia, A Mother’s Story

5 – Zinaida Zhemchuzhnaia, The Road to Exile

6 – Nadezhda Krupskaia, Autobiography

7 – Tatiana Varsher, Things Seen and Suffered

8 – Zinaida Patrikeeva, Cavalry Boy

9 – Irina Elenevskaia, Recollections

10 – Sofia Volkonskaia, The Way of Bitterness

PART II

Toward “New Forms of Life” (The 1920s)

11 – Agrippina Korevanova, My Life

12 – Anonymous, What Am I to Do?

13 – Ekaterina Olitskaia, My Reminiscences (2)

14 – Paraskeva Ivanova, Why I Do Not Belong in the Party

15 – Maria Belskaia, Arina’s Children

16 – Antonina Solovieva, Sent by the Komsomol

17 – Nenila Bazeleva et al., Peasant Narratives (1)

18 – Anna Balashova, A Worker’s Life

19 – Valentina Bogdan, Students in the First Five-Year Plan

20 – Alla Kiparenko, Building the City of Youth

21 – Anna Iankovskaia, A Belomor Confession

22 – Lidia Libedinskaia, The Green Lamp

PART III

“Life Has Become Merrier” (The 1930s)

23 – Pasha Angelina, The Most Important Thing

24 – Efrosinia Kislova et al., Peasant Narratives (2)

25 – Fruma Treivas, We Were Fighting for an Idea!

26 – N. I. Slavnikova et al., Speeches by Stakhanovites

27 – Ulianova, A Cross-Examination

28 – Anna Shchetinina, A Sea Captain’s Story

29 – Kh. Khuttonen, Farewell to the Komsomol

30 – Anastasia Plotnikova, Autobiography

31 – A. V. Vlasovskaia et al., Speeches by Stakhanovites’ Wives

32 – Inna Shikheeva-Gaister, A Family Chronicle

33 – Evdokia Maslennikova, The Story of My Life

34 – Valentina Bogdan, Memoirs of an Engineer

35 – Frida Troib et al., Engineers’ Wives

36 – Ekaterina Olitskaia, My Reminiscences (3)