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"In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends."
- Martin Luther King,
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| | Koba the Dread:
Laughter and the Twenty Million
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| | by Martin Amis
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ZIN Product Number: 10257357
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Hardcover, 192 pages
Publisher: Hyperion
ISBN: 0786868767
Release Date: Jan 6, 1998
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Koba the Dread is the successor to Martin Amis's celebrated memoir, Experience. It is largely political while remaining personal. It addresses itself to the central lacuna of twentieth-century thought: the indulgence of communism by intellectuals of the West. In between the personal beginning and the personal ending, Amis gives us perhaps the best "short course" ever in Stalin: Koba the Dread, losif the Terrible. The author's father, Kingsley Amis, though later reactionary in tendency, was "a Comintern dogsbody" (as he would come to put it) from 1941 to 1956. His second-closest, and then closest friend (after the death of the poet Philip Larkin), was Robert Conquest, our leading Sovietologist, whose book of 1968, The Great Terror, was second only to Solzhenitsyn's The Gulag Archipelago in undermining the USSR. Amis's remarkable memoir explores these connections. Stalin said that the death of one person was tragic, the death of a million a mere "statistic." Koba the Dread, during whose course the author absorbs a particular, a familial death, is a rebuttal of Stalin's aphorism.
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| | | |  | | | | Part I | The Collapse of the Value of Human Life | 1 | | Preparatory | | | Credentials | | | Background | | | More Background | | | The Politicization of Sleep | | | More Background | | | Ten Theses on Ilyich | | | Who-Whom? | | | Insecure: More Background | | | The Collapse of the Value of Human Life in Practice | | | Nicholas the Last | | | The Collapse of the Value of Human Life in Practice--2 | | | Getting to the Other Planet | | | The Epic Agony of the Gulag | | | The Isolator | | | The New Men | | | The Little Mustache and the Big Mustache | | | Part II | Iosif the Terrible: Short Course | 95 | | Census | | | Georgia | | | Demian Bedny | | | The Gray Blur, the Yellow Eyes | | | The Kremlin Complexion | | | Rhythms of Thought | | | Succession | | | Theory | | | The Second October and the Breaking of the Peasantry | | | Women | | | Men and Mountains | | | 1933: The Terror-Famine | | | Poison Pen | | | Heavy Industry | | | Kazakhstan | | | Congress of Victors | | | Prolonged and Stormy Applause | | | Congress of Victors--2 | | | Kolyma Tales | | | The Kirov Murder | | | Children | | | Reason and the Great Terror | | | Show Trial | | | Reason and the Great Terror--2 | | | Interventions | | | Voices from the Yezhovshchina | | | Ech... | | | In the nightmare of the dark / All the dogs of Europe bark | | | Zoya Kosmodemyanskaya | | | The Taste Inside Stalin's Mouth | | | Bolshevik Bravery | | | It loves blood / The Russian earth | | | The Saddest Story | | | Into the Sere | | | The Bedbug | | | End | | | Negative Perfection | | | Part III | When We Dead Awaken | 243 | | Letter to a Friend | | | The Beginnings of the Search for Decorum | | | Butyrki Nights | | | The Forty Days of Kengir | | | As the stars are known to the Night | | | Afterword: Letter to My Father's Ghost | | | Index | 283 |
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