The Education of a True Believer (English and Russian Edition)

In this book, Lev Kopelev chronicles his early eager absorption of and his final tragic disillusionment with Soviet propaganda, recalling events from his carefree Jewish childhood in Kiev to his imprisonment in a labor camp. THE EDUCATION OF A TRUE BELIEVER Contents Instead of an Introduction I Without the Tsar, but Still with God 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 II First Love and First Ideology 1 2 3 4 5 6 III Loss of God 1 2 3 4 5 6 IV ’Twixt Kisses and Newspapers 1 2 3 V Esperanto 1 2 3 4 VI The Future Leader 2 3 VII At the Portals of Literature 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 VIII Forked Roads, Crossed Roads, Impasses 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 IX The Last Grain Collections (1933) 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 X The End of Youth 1 2 3 4 Glossary of Soviet Terms Index Lev Kopelev ; Translated From The Russian By Gary Kern. Continues The Author's To Be Preserved Forever, Published In 1977. Continued By The Author's Ease My Sorrow, Published In 1983. Translation Of: I Sotvoril Sebe Kumira. Includes Index.