Broken Pastries
Published on 28. August 2018
110 pages
978-1-55096-451-6 (ISBN)
Description
Few moments, certainly few speeches, in the 20th century so radically altered the flow of international events and specifically the direction of Russian history as Nikita Khrushchev's 1956 attack on the cult of Joseph Stalin. Overnight, a society under the lock and key of ideology and the eye of a secret police was sprung loose, entering into a period that has since come to be known as "the Thaw.? Suddenly, citizens like the young Moscow architect, Vladimir Azarov, were free to read banned Russian writers like Solzhenitsyn, to attend concerts by stars like Marlene Dietrich, and free to go not only to Berlin but on to Paris. Azarov has written 26 monologues, each devoted to recollecting sunburst moments of freedom, moments of awareness when millions of people were suddenly coming in from the great cold of Stalin's years of terror.
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- Intro
- BROKEN PASTRIES
- Contents
- PREFACE
- SONG I EARLY MARCH
- SONG II SHE KNOCKS
- SONG III ALL OF US IN MOURNFUL ROWS
- SONG IV THE THAW
- SONG V AFTER GOING TO MY BED
- SONG VI LITTLE LAMB
- SONG VII INESSA ARMAND
- SONG VIII THE INSIDIOUS THAW
- SONG IX SHE, PERSISTENT MUSE
- SONG X LILI MARLENE
- SONG XI SVETLANA
- SONG XII ALL OF MY LIBRARY
- SONG XIII NORTH STAR
- SONG XIV NO
- SONG XV YESTERDAY
- SONG XVI NIGHT, DARK
- SONG XVII I DO NOT BELONG
- SONG XVIII I DID NOT SLEEP
- SONG XIX I WAS BAPTIZED
- SONG XX ELECTRICITY'S POLES
- SONG XXI SELF-PORTRAIT THROUGH A MAGNIFYING GLASS
- SONG XXII TITANIC
- SONG XXIII OF BROKEN PASTRIES BY SOUR GRAPES
- SONG XXIV OF NATIVITY
- SONG XXV BROKEN PASTRIES
- SONG XXVI BUS BERLIN-PARIS
- SONG XXVII GODOT
