The Trial Begins (Cyclopedia of Literary Characters)
At a glance:
- Author: Andrei Sinyavsky
- First Published: 1959
- Type of Work: Novella
- Type of Plot: Political
- Time of Work: Late 1952 until the death of Joseph Stalin in March, 1953; epilogue in 1956
- Setting: Moscow
- Genres: Long fiction, Grotesque literature
- Subjects: 1950’s, Dictators, Communism or communists, Prisoners, Trials, Oppression, Anti-Semitism, Totalitarianism, Moscow, Soviet Union or Soviets, Dissent or dissenters
- Locales: Moscow, Russia
Characters Discussed
Vladimir Petrovich Globov (vlah- DIH-mihr peh-TROH-vihch GLOH-bov), a public prosecutor during Soviet tyrant Joseph Stalin’s last round of purges. These purges were aimed at Jewish citizens, who were referred to as “rootless cosmopolitans” and “enemies of the people.” A man with a “large spreading trunk” and “hands as heavy as oars,” Globov is an unquestioning follower of the Master’s (Stalin’s) will. He discovers that Dr. S. Y. Rabinovich, a Jewish physician he has prosecuted for alleged activities against the Soviet state, had...
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