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Jacques Rossi was one of the most astute observers of the Stalinist system, in addition to being one of its victims.
List of contents
Introduction: The Meeting
Part One: Before
1. Never again
2. The established order
3. The future of the worldwide proletariat is more important than one’s career!
4. Fugitive
5. Secret agent
6. Let them stuff themselves with caviar! They won’t grow old!
7. Early indications of an announced arrest
8. The trap
Part Two: During
9. From the dog house to the train station
10. We don’t torture foreigners
11. Confess, filthy fascist!
12. On interrogations
13. Daily life at the Butyrka Prison
14. The story of a blind man and coffee with milk
15. The verdict: now we’re going to put into practice Marxist-Leninist theory
16. Destination unknown
17. Transit. May your memory be your only travel bag!
18. An operatic voice on the Yenisei
19. Dudinka: the end of the world
20. The polar night
21. Surviving
22. Yes I am a communist and you are too; only between us there is barbed wire
23. How Jacques, the Frenchman ceased to be a communist
24. The friends of the people
25. Continuing in spite of oneself
26. The rebel: the first hunger strike
27. In the central prison of Alexandrovsk
28. The beginning of the end
29. "I Choose Samarkand"
30. "But sir, you are dripping snow on my floors!"
31. In Central Asia: the man who came from a country with no collective farms
32. To Nikita Khrushchev, [stop] I, Jacques Rossi, [stop] a Free Citizen, [stop] Am Starting a Hunger Strike, [stop] With No Time Limit and Until Death
Part Three: After
33. Communist Poland: Origins of The Gulag Handbook
34. Seeing Paris again
35. Life after communism
In Place of an Epilogue
Afterward to the English Edition
About the author
By Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde
Edited by Golfo Alexopoulos and Translated by Kersti Colombant
Summary
Jacques Rossi was one of the most astute observers of the Stalinist system, in addition to being one of its victims.
