Contents
Acknowledgments
Part I
Exile
Making the Family Skeletons Dance
Purging the Party
The Letter
Iosif Vissarionovich Dzhugashvili
To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!
In Voronezh, a City Peter Built and Poets Braved
In the Most High and Palmy State of Rome
That Way Madness Lies
Only the Pitiless
Statistics
Part II
Pavel´s Polish Pelagia
Escape from Paradise
The Haughty Barber
Anna on the Bubble
Let the Innocent Escape
The Worst Cut of All
To the Finland Station
Razan’s List
Anna’s Notes
Glossary