Ritual of Liquidation: The Case of the Moscow Trials

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Authors' Note v
• Contents vii
• Acknowledgments ix
• Introduction 3
• Chapter 1 the Problem 9
• Part I - Capitulation 25
• Chapter 2 the Battle of Forecasts 27
• Chapter 3 the Impact of Powerlessness 42
• Note to Chapter 4 - Hypotheses About a Type of Russian Family 51
• Part II - Confession 79
• Chapter 5 the Unimportance Of Emotional Relief 82
• Chapter 6 the Last Service to the Party 85
• Chapter 7 Reunion with the Party 93
• Chapter 8 Identification with The Attacker 97
• Chapter 9 Triumph in Self-Liquidation 104
• Chapter 10 the End is in the Beginning 113
• Chapter 11 the Irrelevance of Motives 143
• Chapter 12 Predicting is Preferring 176
• Chapter 13 the Equivalence of Means 182
• Part III - Resistance 225
• Chapter 16 the Incompleteness of Action 235
• Chapter 17 the Propriety of Motives 250
• Chapter 18 the Moderation of Means 269
• Chapter 19 Retractions and Qualifications 278
• Chapter 20 Pretended Forgetting And Ignorance 297
• Chapter 21 Conspicuous Concealment 300
• Chapter 24 Contradictions 314
• Chapter 25 Fallacy and Tautology 316
• Chapter 26 Playing with the Truth 321
• Note to Section 2, Part III - Allusions to the Secret 343
• Epilogue: the Image Of Betrayal, 1949-1954 350
• Postscript on Beria 393
• Notes 401
• Bibliography 504
• Index 507

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