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Index
Cover
Biographical Notes
Map
Title Page
Japanese Archery
CONTENTS
Chronology
Foreword
Introduction
MY CENTURY
1. THE EARLY TWENTIES. STRUCTURE OF POLISH SOCIETY. FUTURISM. JAN HEMPEL. WLADYSLAW BRONIEWSKI. BRUNO JASIEŃSKI.
2. THE PROBLEMS OF AUTOBIOGRAPHY. THE GGA MANIFESTO AND ANTIPOETRY.
3 DEMONISM AND EXORCISM. THE LITERARY MONTHLY. FRATERNITÉ OU LA MORT.
4 GOING OVER TO COMMUNISM.
5 MAYAKOVSKY IN WARSAW. PAUL ELUARD. A THEATRICAL MONTAGE FOR THE NATIONAL EXHIBITION IN POZNAŃ. BERLIN IN 1928.
6 PARIS IN 1928. JAN HEMPEL. POWER STRUGGLES IN THE SOVIET UNION. WITKACY’S NOVELS. POLAND AFTER Piłsudski’S COUP.
7 WITKACY. THE SOVIET EMBASSY. MAYAKOVSKY.
8 RUSSIA. COMMUNISM. PATRIOTISM.
9 THE LITERARY MONTHLY: ARTICLES AND ATTACKS.
10 THE LITERARY MONTHLY. ISAAC DEUTSCHER. FIRST ARREST. POLITICS AND BEDROOM FARCE.
11 CENTRAL PRISON. BRONIEWSKI THE EGOTIST. CONTACT WITH THE WORKING CLASS AS EDITOR AND CELL MATE.
12 COMMUNISTS IN PRISON: WORKERS AND FUTURE STATESMEN. RELEASE FROM PRISON. HITLER TAKES POWER. FASCISM OR COMMUNISM.
13 THE THIRTIES. LIGHTNING BOLTS FROM RUSSIA. SPLITS IN THE PARTY. ANTI-SEMITISM.
14 DISBANDING OF THE POLISH PARTY. THE ESSENCE OF STALINISM. GEBETHNER’S PUBLISHING HOUSE. DEATH OF MY MOTHER. OMENS.
15 WAR. FLIGHT TO LWÓW. THE RED ARMY. A NEW WRITERS' UNION. THE RED BANNER. SELF-CRITICISM.
16 LWÓW. WANDA WASILEWSKA. BRONIEWSKI. SOVIET WRITERS. SIGNS THAT I WILL BE ARRESTED.
17 LWÓW. ARTICLES FOR THE RED BANNER. DIGRESSION ON MONGOLIA AS A PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC. MY JEWISHNESS. PROVOCATION AND ARREST.
18 COUNT BIELSKI. MY CELL IN ZAMARSTYNÓW PRISON.
19 RELIGION IN PRISON. ÊTRE AND PARAÎTRE. LITERATURE IN PRISON. SOCIAL BONDS. POLES AND UKRAINIANS.
20 A NEW SPIRITUAL LEADER IN THE CELL. CHARISMA AND HIERARCHY. INNER LIFE IN PRISON. AN INFORMER. THE PUNISHMENT CELL. BRONIEWSKI AS HERO.
21 KIEV IN AUTUMN. TRANSIT PRISON IN KIEV. CHILDREN IN PRISON. GRAFFITI. TO MOSCOW BY TRAIN.
22 IN LUBYANKA. DUNAYEVSKY AND OTHER CELL MATES. THE “IRON BARRIER.” POLISH CATHOLICISM. SOVIET LAW. JEWS.
23 READING PROUST IN LUBYANKA. MACHIAVELLI AND STALIN. RÉINVENTER LE POÈTE.
24 DUNAYEVSKY’S THOUGHTS ABOUT RUSSIA. A HIGH NKVD OFFICIAL. DUNAYEVSKY’S STORY; OR, THE ABYSS. THE FLOW OF TIME IN PRISON.
25 THE WEIGHT OF WORDS. THE RESEARCH OFFICE AT LUBYANKA. INTELLECTUAL SNOBBERY AND FAMILY EGOISM. EINSTEIN’S THEORY AND PRAYER.
26 PLATO’S REPUBLIC. TIME AND ST. AUGUSTINE. EARLY SPRING IN MOSCOW AND MUSIC.
27 BACH AND NATURE. A VISIT TO ERFURT. DUNAYEVSKY’S MANIA. THE MONGOLIAN DOCTOR. QUESTIONED BY A HIGH PARTY OFFICIAL. THE WRITING CUBICLE. THE GERMANS INVADE YUGOSLAVIA.
28 NEW CELL MATES. THE EZHOV TERROR. A FORMER POLISH INTELLIGENCE AGENT. TAITZ. BERIA. KIRSANOV. GOG AND MAGOG.
29 EVACUATION. WITH BRONIEWSKI AGAIN. A FOUR-DAY TRAIN RIDE. THE CAREERS OF UNIVERMAG DIRECTORS. SARATOV. STEKLOV. ERLICH. THE FIRST URKS.
30 CELL MATES IN SARATOV. THE PROFESSOR. THE GEORGIAN. GERMANS. A DIGRESSION ON BEDBUGS.
31 THE HERETICAL MONK. SOLDIERS. A DIGRESSION ON THE EROTIC AND PERSONAL LIFE. THE DEVIL APPEARS. CONVERSION. ON JUDAISM AND CHRISTIANITY. HUNGER AND SICKNESS. A MEETING.
32 TELL PEOPLE IN POLAND HOW OLD STEKLOV DIED. IN THE HOSPITAL. A SECOND TRUE HUMAN BEING— DUBIN. LEAVING PRISON.
33 SOVIET TRAIN STATIONS. A JOURNEY BY TRAIN. IN DZHAMBUL. ALMA-ATA. THE POLISH DELEGATION. A MYSTERIOUS SUBTENANT IN VICTOR SHKLOVSKY’S ROOM. MOSFILM’S SCRIPT-WRITING DEPARTMENT.
34 KAZAKH ARISTOCRATS. A NOBLE COURT IN ALMAATA. FRANK CONVERSATIONS WITH RUSSIAN WRITERS. THE DEATH OF MARINA TSVETAEVA. ON ZOSHCHENKO. REUNION WITH MY FAMILY.
35 ISAAC BABEL. THE POLISH INTELLIGENTSIA. THE TRIP TO MOLOTOVOBAD. ESCAPE. RETURN TO ALMA-ATA VIA KOKAND AND TASHKENT. RICH POLES.
36 THE JEWISH WAR. RICHES BEHIND CURTAINS. GREECE IN CENTRAL ASIA. DROHOJOWSKI. INTERROGATION. HUNTERS. STALINGRAD.
37 WORKING WITH WESELY. SHNAIDER’S DEATH AND ZOSHCHENKO’S DECLINE. ELEGANCE AND THOMAS À KEMPIS IN CENTRAL ASIA. DEPARTURE FOR ILI. AMONG POLISH JEWS.
Photographs
Epilogue
Names Mentioned in the Text
Index
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