How did we ever dare apply for the exit visa? Well, like most citizens, we were scared. Prologue Years ago, our 20-year-old daughter Lana wondered how did we ever dare to leave the USSR? It was the kind of country where, once you declared your intention to emigrate, you became an enemy of the state and could end up in jail or in a labor camp. Kozlov Dima Destinies Karvovsky Professors Moscow Vice Kòndos Batàlovġ-Existence Soviets 101 Mother 2-War and Family The Bridge Tashkent Nikolay and Yuzik Cotton Growers Turkestan Uncle Yefim Grandpa Stepfather Chimkent Gena Mark Returnħ-Siberia From Moscow to Novosibirsk 199 The Land Use Expert 204 The The Bus Lodging Surveyor General Collective Farm Inn My Circus Kuz’min “Six Ninths”Ĩ-Exodus The Graduate The Inventor Moscow’s Map The Map of Israel Konstantìnov Encountering the KGB Mika Tomsk Berkovich Ph.D. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Box 6 11, Jefferson, North Carolina 28640 To my children and grandchildrenĤ-Trade School The House Painter Field Workĥ - On the Way Comrades in Arms The Requital Abram I Am a Jew NowĦ8 The Monastery 17 Tevelev Square 71 A Woman from Music School 81 Embouchure 83 Leonid 84 The Band 86 Pianoforte Obbligato 88 Fèygin 91 Manufactured in the United States of America Kharkov, Ukraine, 1957 backgroun d ©2008 Shutterstock. The author is second from left with a flute.
On the cover: Revolution Day celebration, at YUZH design office. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying or recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. Totalitarianism- Social aspe cts- Sovie t Union- History. Communism- Social aspects- Soviet Union - History. Soviet Union-Soc ial conditions- 1945– 199 1. SovietHistory- Union-Hi story- 925– Biography. Translated from the Russian by David Gurevich with contributions by Anatol ZukermanĬONGRESS CATALOGUI NG-IN-P UBLICATION DATAīerkovich, Gary, 1935– Watching communism fail : a memoir of life in the Soviet Union / Gary Berkovich. McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers Jefferson, North Carolina, and London Watching Communism Fail A Memoir of Life in the Soviet Union GARY BERKOVICH
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