31. A Boat to the Other Shore (1988–1991)
32. From the Willow Chest: Family Correspondence (1916)
33. Kiev–Moscow (1917–1925)
34. Yurik in America (1991–2000)
35. Letters from Marusya to Jacob: Sudak (July–August 1925)
36. Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District (Early 1999–2000)
37. Uzun-Syrt—Stalingrad Tractor Plant (1925–1933)
38. First Exile: Stalingrad Tractor Plant (1931–1933)
39. Yurik Comes Home (Early 2000)
40. From the Willow Chest—Biysk: Jacob’s Letters (1934–1936)
41. Letters from the Willow Chest: War (1942–1943)
42. Fifth Try (2000–2009)
43. Family Secrets (1936–1937)
44. Variations on a Theme: Fiddler on the Roof (1992)
45. With Mikhoels (1945–1948)
46. Reunion in Moscow (2003)
47. Theater of Shadows (2010)
48. Liberation (1955)
49. The Birth of a New Jacob (2011)
50. The Archives (2011)
Epilogue
Author’s Note
Acknowledgments
Also by Ludmila Ulitskaya
A Note About the Author and Translator
Copyright
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Originally published in Russian in 2015 by AST/Elena Shubina Publishers, Russia, as ЛecTHNЦa ЯKOBa
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* The Black Hundreds was an ultranationalist movement in Russia in the early twentieth century that supported the House of Romanov and opposed any challenge to the autocracy of the emperor.
* The so-called Bulldozer Exhibition was an infamous, unofficial open-air art exhibition held on September 15, 1974, in Moscow. The exhibition was broken up by the police, using bulldozers and water cannons.
* The New Economic Policy (NEP) was an economic policy adopted in Soviet Russia in 1921–28 with the goal of salvaging the national economy after the Russian Civil War of 1917–22.
† The Industrial Party (‘Prompartija’) Trial was the first of many show trials, culminating in Stalin’s Great Terror of 1937, in which prominent members of the bourgeois intelligentsia, among others, and later Party officials themselves, were accused on trumped-up charges of sabotage and treason against the Soviet state. Many of the accused, though innocent, pleaded guilty.
* The “fifth paragraph” was a line in the Soviet passport identifying the ethnicity (or “nationality,” as it is called in Russian) of the bearer, thus sanctioning discrimination on ethnic grounds.
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