Never Out of Reach : Growing up in Tallinn, Riga, and Moscow.

A young poet's tragicomic account of crossed loves and rebellions as he grows from boy to man under the vigilant eyes of the secret police and the State as a whole in the Soviet Union between the 1950s and 1970s.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Dubnov, Eugene
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Series:Translated Texts for Historians LUP.
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Contents; Chapter 1: "I Needed a Woman"; Chapter 2: It Could Have Been Worse; Chapter 3: "The Thug Copped It"; Chapter 4: "This foul regime-a curse upon it!"; Chapter 5: Travels from Language to Language; Chapter 6: The Tongues; Chapter 7: "All Potatoes Look Alike"; Chapter 8: Religion; Chapter 9: "Dinky Little Cunt" and the Young Communist League Secretary; Chapter 10: Madonnas; Chapter 11: The Sea of Youth; Chapter 12: Never Out of Reach; Chapter 13: Speaking Freely; Chapter 14: Visiting Firemen; Chapter 15: And the Word Was Made Flesh; Chapter 16: Redemption (All Were Saved).
  • Chapter 17: BetrayalChapter 18: Light Beyond the Window; Chapter 19: Early Farewell; Chapter 20: Parents; Chapter 21: Chicken Soup; Chapter 22: Marina; Chapter 23: The Spring of '71; Chapter 24: Envoi.