Moscow, 1937 / Karl Schlögel ; translated by Rodney Livingstone.

Navigation : Margarita's flight. Margarita's flight
Manuscripts don't burn : a writer in 1937
Relief map of the city, locations, staging posts
Dramatis personae and their portrayal : dual characters
NKVD, the organization
'People vanished from their apartments without trace'
Sudden deaths, execution as spectacle
'It can't be!'
Moscow as a construction site : Stalin's general plan in action. Aleksandr Medvedkin's film New Moscow
A new cityscape : Stalin's general plan for the reconstruction of Moscow
Moscow as a construction site : between demolition and new construction
Moscow beyond the ring roads
Human landscape, struggle for survival
A topography of the disappeared : the Moscow directory of 1936. Snapshot of the status quo : directories as documents of their age
Topography of power and other locations
Traces of the disappeared
Lists of people to be shot and the posthumous reconstruction of their addresses
The creation of enemies : the criminal prosecution of the Trotskyite-Zinovievite Terrorist Center, 19-24 August 1936. World-historical criminal cases : the rhetoric of the first Moscow show trial
The echo of violence : how a latent civil war comes to be articulated in language
'Double-dealers'
The birth of the show trial from the spirit of lynch-law
The ideal enemy
'Tired of the effort of observing and understanding' : Lion Feuchtwanger's Moscow 1937. A key scene in European intellectual history : Feuchtwanger's meeting with Stalin
The impotence of the anti-fascist movement : how to generate a point of view
The end of the flâneur : journey in the shadow of the NKVD
The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning : credo quia absurdum
Leave-taking at Belorusskii Station
In the glare of battle : Spain and other fronts. Moscow maps : the scene is Spain
A world in meltdown, war scare
The Soviet nation as a patriotic fighting unit
Metastases : show trial in Barcelona, the NKVD abroad
Barcelona transfer : Moscow experiences
Blindness and terror : the suppressed census of 1937. A journey into the interior of society
6 January 1937 : snapshot of an empire
Ten years after the census of 1926 : balance sheet after the Great Leap Forward
Self-analysis, self-education, data acquisition
The shock of the missing millions
Statistics as crime


A stage for the horrors of industrialization : the second Moscow show trial in January 1937. 'The business-like atmosphere'
The language of expert witnesses
The topography of the Five-Year Plan
Human sacrifice, nemesis, chorus
Postscript
'A feast in the time of plague' : the Pushkin jubilee of 10 February 1937. The New York Times : 'all Russia was Pushkin-mad today'
'Comrade Pushkin' : consecration of a classic
A feast in the time of plague : coded discourses
Platitudes of a new culture
Russian genius and imperial rule
Public death : Ordzhonikidze's suicide and death rites. The shock : Sergo is dead
Escape into ritual
Suicide as a weapon
A hopeless situation and protest
Death as a group experience : speaking of death in times of mass murder
The engine room of the year 1937 : the February-March plenum of the Central Committee. A leadership at its wits' end : the voice of panic
Testing the limits and exceeding them : the Party indicts Bukharin and Rykov
The shock : 'universal, free, secret elections'
Audit report : ungovernability and fear of chaos
Wreckers at work in the NKVD
The dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one
Setting the machinery in motion
Moscow in Paris : the USSR pavilion at the International Exhibition of 1937. The exhibition trail : a journey through the map of the Soviet Union
The theme park of twentieth-century civilization
Marginal encounters
Red Square : parade ground and place of execution
Chopin concert and killing ritual : radio and the creation of the great community. Radiofikatsia : the two faces of progress
Radio as the background noise of the new age
The sphere of feelings
Radio listeners as 'citizens of the world'
Stalin : the original soundtrack : the direction of the historical moment
Wreckers at work in the ether
Soviet art deco : time preserved in stone. The first All-Union Congress of Architects, 16-26 June 1937
Moscow as a building site
Chaos and stress
The Soviet universe as exhibition
The creation of a new style during a state of emergency
Closing speech : Frank Lloyd Wright
'Brown bodies, gaily coloured shorts' : sports parade. 'The glorious beauty of young people'
Fizkul'turnik, fizkul'turnitsa : icons of the new age
'Stalin's tribe' : tableaux vivants in Red Square


Wealth and destruction : the Seventeenth International Geology Congress in Moscow. The emergence of Soviet geologists : science and the dream of an affluent nation
Pioneers the nation does not need : geologists as enemies of the people
Vladimir Vernadskii : a patriot without fear
Excursion to the Moscow-Volga Canal : science and slave labour
A city by the sea : the opening of the Moscow-Volga Canal. After the White Sea Canal : Stalin's second arterial highway
A canal as a Gesamtkunstwerk : the aesthetics of a man-made riverscape
Dmitlag, the Gulag Archipelago at the gates of the capital : the parallel society of the camp zone
Perekovka/reforging : the laboratory of the new man
'I have seen a country that has been transformed into one great camp'
Year of adventures, 1937 : a Soviet Icarus. Triumphs, records : a city in a fever
Non-stop to America
The conquest of the Arctic
Twentieth-century adventures
Heroes of the age : Stalin's aviators
'There are thousands of dreamers like me'
'Bolshevik romanticism' and terror
Moscow as shop-windows : the abundance of the world, hungry for goods and dizzy with hunger. André Gide : on luxury and shortages
Advertisements, window displays : objects of desire and how to present them
Dizzy with hunger
A hopeless struggle : a nation of speculators
The queue as grapevine
Open spaces, dream landscapes : cruising on the Volga, holidaying on the Red Riviera, conspiracies in the Dachas
The national Bolshevik Nikolai Ustrialov : his return home and death. Returning home from exile : establishing contact with the new Russia
national Bolshevism and Stalin's 'socialism in one country'
The world of 'former people' and 1937
A double reading : a diary with comments by the NKVD
Celebrating the October revolution on 7 November 1937. In the diplomats' box
Conversations in the inner circle of power
a miniature of high society before the massacre. The bombs come closer
Beau monde, illustrious society
Masked ball at the American Embassy
Interior with piano and nursemaid
Yezhov's salon : art and the secret police
Postscript : inventory of luxury and fashion
Soviet Hollywood : miracles and monsters. Lenin in October : the Revolution corrected
The USSR as a land of film, picture palaces and stars
Mosfilm 1937 : chaos in the film factory
Volga-Volga : directors as conspirators, actors as spies
Terror and good entertainment


Death in exile. Dimitrov's diary : a record of self-destruction
Vanishing point Moscow : biotope
Foreign comrades
Vulnerability : world communism as world conspiracy
Lists, dossiers and card indexes
Arcadia in Moscow : Stalin's Luna Park. 'A centre of culture and rest'
'What a summer!'
The locus of public opinion
'Avtozavodtsy' : the workforce of the Stalin car factories. 'Shanghai' : city of immigrants, city on the periphery
Ivan Likhachev, captain of industry
Factory patriotism : the factory as melting pot
'Mass criticism', or the orchestration of hatred and despair
Dzhaz : the sound of the thirties. Dzhaz (Utesov)
Songs for the masses (Dunaevskii)
Classical music (Shostakovich)
Changing faces, changing times
America, America : the other new world. Ili'a Il'f and Evgenii Petrov's journey to America
Special relations : Soviet Americanism and the New Deal
The American way of life in 1937
Utopia as present-day reality
'I know of no other country...' : 1937 and the production of Soviet space. The birth of the Soviet Union from the spirit of songs for the masses
Moscow as an image-making machine
Homogenizing labour : purges and the unity of the Soviet nation
The Butovo shooting range : topography of the great terror. Looking for traces : the archaeology of the graveyard
Mass murder on the outskirts of the city
Sociology of the mass grave
Killing by quota : Order No. 00447
World war, civil war
Lonely white sail... : dreamtime, children's worlds
Yezhov at the Bolshoi Theatre : celebrating twenty years of the Cheka. At the heart of Moscow : power made visible
Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders
Ovations for the executioners : morituri salutant
Bukharin takes his leave. Bukharin's final plea
The show trial : exercises in dialectics
The Lubianka : prison as a production site
Letter to Koba
A Moscow childhood in 1900
'For official use only' : Moscow as a city on the enemy map
The foundation pit. The imaginary centre : a support for the empire
The dome that disappeared : Russian Byzantium
Labouring away at a vacuum : fantasies of the building of the century
Rome, New York, Moscow : the genius of Boris Iofan
War, post-war, and the end of the state of emergency
Instead of an epilogue.