Fragments of Lives : Chronicles of the Gulag.

COVER -- CONTENTS -- THE SPARROW, THE COW, AND THE CAT -- A COMMONPLACE STORY -- A LESSON ON DIALECTICS -- TEARS AND LAUGHTERS -- A DEBT OF GRATITUDE -- JUST A MINUTE, PLEASE! -- A NEVER-ENDING STORY -- PENKHOS KARLIK -- THE COOLER -- THE LETTER -- NIKIFOR PROZOROV -- A COINCIDENCE -- THE EXECUTIONER -- DORJI -- MAJOR TCHOUVACHOV, PROTECTOR OF THE SCIENCES -- THE COMPLAINT -- THE FAITH OF THE STALINIST -- POPAUL -- PACK AND GO! -- THE PEASANTS -- STEP TO THE LEFT, STEP TO THE RIGHT… -- STALIN DOES BETTER THAN CUVIER -- SHORTCUTS -- ALBINAS -- SOME FINE PSYCHOLOGISTS -- SAVOIR-VIVRE -- THE COW -- THE BET -- A GOOD JOKE -- BETWEEN THUGS -- THE INFORMER'S PAYCHECK -- PAID LEAVE -- THE PRETTY POLISH GIRL -- TCHEREPANOV, THE WORKSITE BRIGADIER -- THE TRUNK -- A STUPID MISTAKE -- THE BRAIN -- THE CIGARETTE BUTT -- THE LIGHTBULB -- THE SUPERIORITY OF LENINISM OVER TSARISM -- MAN IS NOT EQUAL TO A HORSE -- THE CYCLOPS -- THE ROTTEN FISH -- SHAME -- THE MACHINE TO READ ONE'S MIND -- THE HEAP OF GARBAGE -- THE PRICE OF A MOUTHFUL OF BREAD -- THE SPARROW ON THE WINDOWSILL -- VOLODIA BOOK, HE NEVER STEALS -- A GOOD GUY -- SHARED HAPPINESS -- AH! GIRLS, GIRLS! -- ANOTHER PLANET -- TWENTY YEARS LATER -- THE JAPANESE -- SON! -- YEZHOV -- SOCIALIST LEGALITY -- GOD MOVES IN MYSTERIOUS WAYS -- SZMUL SZWARC -- LE LOUVRE -- BECAUSE MAN'S HANDS ARE LIKE THIS -- THE CHINESE KOMSOMOL -- HUNGER -- COLD -- REVEILLE -- OFF TO WORK! -- A SPRING DAY -- "YOU, YOU AND YOU!!" -- A NAIL STUCK IN BETWEEN BALLS -- "YOU'RE PERFECTLY SAFE -- THE ESCAPE -- THE SECRET MESSAGE -- THE LATRINE -- WHAT ABOUT THE OTHER HAND? -- THE SURPRISE OF THE PROSECUTOR -- TOUFTA: LYING, CHEATING, FORGERY -- WHAT A BEAUTIFUL UTOPIA IT WAS! -- AUTHOR'S DRAWINGS -- DEAR READER -- POSTFACE -- CHRONOLOGY.

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