{"product_id":"jacques-the-frenchman-9781487524067","title":"Jacques the Frenchman","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eJacques Rossi is one of Stalin’s most well-known victims. Author of \u003ci\u003eThe Gulag Handbook\u003c\/i\u003e, a fascinating encyclopedia of the Soviet forced labor camps, Rossi spent twenty years in interrogation, prison, and Gulag detention. Born to a prominent Polish father and French mother, the young Jacques became attracted to communism as a blueprint for radical social reform. He spent years in the communist underground in interwar Europe, agitating for the revolution, but he was arrested during Stalin’s Great Purges in 1937. This book represents a conversation between Jacques Rossi and Michèle Sarde, professor emerita at Georgetown University, and weaves together personal reflections and historical analysis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eRossi’s remarkable life (19092004) spanned the twentieth century and sheds important light on the tumultuous history of Europe  the appeal of communism in the interwar period and beyond, the mentality of party members, the effects of mass repression, everyday\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Jacques Rossi stands perhaps second only to Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn in his contributions to our anthropological understanding of the Gulag […] Rossi’s detailed descriptions of Gulag life near Norilsk, from intimate portraits of fellow prisoners to an analysis of whether a damaged can or a hat was better for receiving one’s soup ration, are endlessly fascinating.\" -- Jeffrey S. Hardy, Brigham Young University * \u003cem\u003eThe Russian Review\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\"The keen observations and reflections of a highly intelligent and educated man, committed to social justice.\" -- Katherine R. Jolluck, Stanford University * \u003cem\u003eJournal of Modern History\u003c\/em\u003e *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: The Meeting   Part One: Before    1. Never again  2. The established order  3. The future of the worldwide proletariat is more important than one’s career!  4. Fugitive  5. Secret agent  6. Let them stuff themselves with caviar! They won’t grow old!  7. Early indications of an announced arrest  8. The trap    Part Two: During    9. From the dog house to the train station  10. We don’t torture foreigners  11. Confess, filthy fascist!  12. On interrogations  13. Daily life at the Butyrka Prison  14. The story of a blind man and coffee with milk  15. The verdict: now we’re going to put into practice Marxist-Leninist theory  16. Destination unknown  17. Transit. May your memory be your only travel bag!  18. An operatic voice on the Yenisei  19. Dudinka: the end of the world  20. The polar night  21. Surviving  22. Yes I am a communist and you are too; only between us there is barbed wire  23. How Jacques, the Frenchman ceased to be a communist  24. The friends of the people  25. Continuing in spite of oneself  26. The rebel: the first hunger strike  27. In the central prison of Alexandrovsk  28. The beginning of the end  29. “I Choose Samarkand”  30. “But sir, you are dripping snow on my floors!”  31. In Central Asia: the man who came from a country with no collective farms 32. To Nikita Khrushchev, [stop] I, Jacques Rossi, [stop] a Free Citizen, [stop] Am Starting a Hunger Strike, [stop] With No Time Limit and Until Death    Part Three: After    33. Communist Poland: Origins of The Gulag Handbook  34. Seeing Paris again  35. Life after communism    In Place of an Epilogue    Afterward to the English Edition\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Toronto Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49409154515287,"sku":"9781487524067","price":26.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781487524067.jpg?v=1730505665","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/jacques-the-frenchman-9781487524067","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}