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Between prison and freedom : memoir of a Soviet dissident /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Podrabinek, Aleksandr, 1953- (Author)
Other Authors: Schwartz, Marian, 1951- (Translator), Satter, David (writer of foreword.)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2025]
Subjects:
Podrabinek, Aleksandr, > 1953-
Dissenters > Soviet Union > Biography.
Political prisoners > Soviet Union > Biography.
Soviet Union > Social conditions.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Title Page
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • Foreword, by David Satter
  • 1. How to Quit Smoking and Start Writing Your Memoirs
  • 2. Childhood
  • 3. Pushkin Square
  • 4. The Beginning
  • 5. Moscow
  • 6. Three Pals
  • 7. Ladies from the Last Century
  • 8. Writer's Itch
  • 9. Impatience
  • 10. From Illusions to Action
  • 11. Psychiatry: First Steps
  • 12. "Do You Recognize Your Brother Sasha?"
  • 13. New Year's, 1977: Tallin
  • 14. The Belyaevo Triangle
  • 15. Our Answer to Chamberlain
  • 16. A Journey to Siberia
  • 17. The Empire Strikes Back
  • 18. West-East
  • 19. Cherchez la Femme
  • 20. Dress Rehearsal
  • 21. Farwell to Arms!
  • 22. The Art of the Interrogation
  • 23. Correspondents and Diplomats
  • 24. Emergency Services
  • 25. In the KGB's Crosshairs
  • 26. No One Wanted to Leave
  • 27. My Tail
  • 28. First Test
  • 29. Hostages: From the Reminisces of P. A. Podrabinek
  • 30. A Moment of Weakness
  • 31. Our Man in the KGB
  • 32. The Working Commission
  • 33. My Last Few Days
  • 34. Matrosskaya Tishina
  • 35. Minors
  • 36. The Investigation
  • 37. The Trial
  • 38. Krasnaya Presnya
  • 39. A Long Journey
  • 40. Chuna
  • 41. Barmakon
  • 42. The Honeymoon
  • 43. The Pole of Cold
  • 44. Yakutsk Prison
  • 45. Death Row
  • 46. An Idiotic Investigation
  • 47. Eros Doesn't Nod
  • 48. Difficulties with My Legal Proceedings
  • 49. Another Trial
  • 50. Bolshaya Markha
  • 51. "Labor Is a Matter of Honor, Courage, and Heroism"
  • 52. A Prison in a Prison
  • 53. Criminals
  • 54. "Only Cross on a Green Light"
  • 55. Trying to Break Me
  • 56. Loneliness
  • 57. Hunger
  • 58. Cold
  • 59. Dreams
  • 60. Yet Another Moment of Weakness
  • 61. Snitches
  • 62. TB
  • 63. The Hospital
  • 64. Expelled from Paradise
  • 65. A Pleasant Prison Camp Life
  • 66. My Last Few Days
  • 67. Ode to the Padded Jacket
  • 68. The Temptation of Freedom
  • Index