{"product_id":"yankees-in-petrograd-isbn-9780262553063","title":"Yankees in Petrograd","description":"\u003cb\u003eWhen a capitalist cabal plots to assassinate Lenin, can quick-witted American workers ride to the rescue before it's too late?—a new translation.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eYankees in Petrograd\u003c\/i\u003e, the Russian author Marietta S. Shaginyan (writing under the American nom de plume Jim Dollar) gives us a riveting crime and espionage adventure with science fiction elements. Despite having awesome technologies such as public transportation that bends space and time and electrical forcefields protecting Soviet Russia against its foes, the world’s first proletarian state is threatened by a fascist organization that will stop at nothing—including kidnapping, mesmerism, and infiltration—to assassinate Vladimir Lenin and his fellow Communist leaders! Enter Mike Thingsmaster, American tradesman and leader of a secret global organization defending the interests of the proletariat, who tasks his network with foiling this nefarious plot.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eShaginyan’s novel, serialized in 1924 with covers decorated by Alexander Rodchenko’s photomontages, proved wildly popular with the Soviet reading public, which followed its dizzying plot breathlessly. Settings constantly shift and characters assume multiple identities, and scenes of danger, intrigue, and melodrama are interspersed with moments of comic relief. Can Thingsmaster and his allies—including a robber baron’s scion who converts to the cause of Revolution, an alluring masked woman, a doctor investigating a disease that causes fierce anti-communists to revert to proto-human form, a chimney sweep, an intelligent dog, and the General Prosecutor of Illinois—succeed in thwarting the fascists? You’ll have to read until the final chapter to find out.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA satire of the sort of thrillers then appearing in \u003ci\u003eBlack Mask\u003c\/i\u003e and similar American pulps, \u003ci\u003eYankees in Petrograd\u003c\/i\u003e is an over-the-top, pro-communist thrill ride.\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: A Mess to Be Mended (Jill Roese)\u003cbr\u003eDollar—His Life and Creative Work: An Introductory Essay\u003cbr\u003ePrologue\u003cbr\u003e1 Arthur Rockefeller Meets His Father\u003cbr\u003e2 Doctor Lepsius Alone\u003cbr\u003e3 Which Begins with Interjections\u003cbr\u003e4 The Hotel Patriciana\u003cbr\u003e5 A Meeting Chaired in Absentia\u003cbr\u003e6 The Eccentricities of Westinghouse’s Mistress\u003cbr\u003e7 The Music Teacher and the Notary\u003cbr\u003e8 A World Behind Walls\u003cbr\u003e9 Mirror Allies\u003cbr\u003e10 The Wood Barge\u003cbr\u003e11 Larry’s Adventures in the Buff\u003cbr\u003e12 Miss Orton’s Confession\u003cbr\u003e13 Druck’s Adventures in a Suit\u003cbr\u003e14 Meeting at the Villa “Ephemeris”\u003cbr\u003e15 Vasilov and His Wife\u003cbr\u003e16 A Pleasant Acquaintance\u003cbr\u003e17 Lepsius Sees a Hand\u003cbr\u003e18 The Amelia Sets Sail\u003cbr\u003e19 Beauty’s Dangerous Journey\u003cbr\u003e20 The Harway Dry Docks\u003cbr\u003e21 The Torpedo Departs\u003cbr\u003e22 Bisks’s Diary\u003cbr\u003e23 Bisk’s Diary, Continued\u003cbr\u003e24 The Senator’s Daughter\u003cbr\u003e25 Which Takes Place Partly on Land and Partly at Sea\u003cbr\u003e26 Which Takes Place Wholly on Land\u003cbr\u003e27 The Amelia Goes Full Steam Ahead\u003cbr\u003e28 Arthur Rockefeller Faces the Reader\u003cbr\u003e29 Yankees in Petrograd\u003cbr\u003e30 Husband, Wife, and Dog\u003cbr\u003e31 Aid to the Hungry and Attendant Circumstances\u003cbr\u003e32 Vasilov in Wonderland\u003cbr\u003e33 The Vasilovs’ First Night Together\u003cbr\u003e34 A Black Hand\u003cbr\u003e35 Mrs. Druck’s Cat\u003cbr\u003e36 Lepsius Meets Greengrocer Behr\u003cbr\u003e37 The Trade Agreement\u003cbr\u003e38 Back in Petrograd\u003cbr\u003e39 A Sailor’s Escapade\u003cbr\u003e40 The Situation Becomes Complicated\u003cbr\u003e41 Read the Paper!\u003cbr\u003e42 Rockefeller in Action\u003cbr\u003e43 Torture by Mirrors\u003cbr\u003e44 Toksovsky Forest\u003cbr\u003e45 The AerElectro Station Engineer\u003cbr\u003e46 A Neighbor’s Grateful Donkey\u003cbr\u003e47 On the Reasons for the Donkey’s Gratitude\u003cbr\u003e48 The Walrus from San Francisco\u003cbr\u003e49 The Benefits of Rabbit Husbandry\u003cbr\u003e50 A Migration of Crows, or What One Can Accomplish Sitting in One Place\u003cbr\u003e51 The Attorney General of the State of Illinois Searches for Druck\u003cbr\u003e52 Doctor Lepsius Searches for Professor Hizzerton\u003cbr\u003e53 Mike Searches for Gregorio Cice\u003cbr\u003e54 Prior to the Arrival of the Clock\u003cbr\u003e55 The Meeting of the Petrograd Soviet\u003cbr\u003e56 The Psychiatrists’ Conference\u003cbr\u003e57 Dr. Lepsius’s Enigma\u003cbr\u003e58 A Misogynist Converted\u003cbr\u003e59 Setto Earns Interest\u003cbr\u003eEpilogue“Marietta Shaginyan’s Yankees in Petrograd is a time capsule—a rollicking, mixed-genre, socialist antidote to Ayn Rand. It’s great to have it in this new edition.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Keith Gessen, author of \u003ci\u003eA Terrible Country\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“A novel of our time, in which major events succeed each other with purely cinematographic speed . . . In Jim Dollar’s novel we see nothing but action.”\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e—Nikolai Meshcheryakov, “Foreword to the First Edition” (1924)\u003c\/b\u003eMarietta S. Shaginyan was a Soviet writer, historian, and activist of Armenian descent. She was one of the “fellow travelers” of the 1920s led by the Serapion Brotherhood and became one of the most prolific communist writers experimenting in satirico-fantastic fiction.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48233871638757,"sku":"NP9780262553063","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262553063.jpg?v=1767744669","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/yankees-in-petrograd-isbn-9780262553063","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}