Moscow, 1937

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

'That can't be!'

Aleksandr Medvedkin's 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

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

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

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 flaneur: journey in the shadow of the NKVD

The phenomenology of confusion and the creation of unambiguous meaning: credo quia absurdum

Leave-taking at Belorussky Station

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

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 Transformation

Self-analysis, self-education, data acquisition- The shock of the missing millions

Statistics as crime

'Business-like atmosphere'

The language of expert witnesses

The topography of the Five-Year Plan

Human sacrifice, nemesis, chorus

Postscript

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

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

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

Dissolution of the Party and the creation of a new one

Setting the machinery in motion

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

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

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

'The glorious beauty of young people'

'Fizkulturnik', 'Fizkulturnitsa': icons of the new age

'Stalin's tribe': Tableaux vivants in Red Square.

'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 ; 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 Vernadsky: A patriot without fear

Excursion to the Moscow-Volga Canal: science and slave labour

After the White Sea

Baltic 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'

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

Andre 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

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

In the diplomats' box

Conversations in the inner circle of power

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

'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

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

'A centre of culture and rest'

'What a summer!'

The locus of public opinion

'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 (Utyosov)

Songs for the masses (Dunayevsky)

Classical music (Shostakovich)

Changing faces, changing times

Ilya Ilf and Evgeny 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

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

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 saile' dreamtime, children's worlds

At the heart of Moscow: power made visible

Celebratory speeches and music between the mass murders

Ovations for the executioners. Morituri salutant

Bukharin's final plea

The show trial: exercises in dialectics

The Lubyanka: 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 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.