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

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Liverpool : Clemson University Press, 2016Copyright date: ©2016Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (240 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781942954002
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Never Out of ReachDDC classification:
  • 891.715
Online resources:
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: Betrayal -- Chapter 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.
Summary: 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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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: Betrayal -- Chapter 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.

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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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