title: Sympathy for the Traitor: A Translation Manifesto (The MIT Press)
author:  Mark Polizzotti 
description: Lively, readable, and often funny  a likably idiosyncratic sequence of essays on a topic that is of more importance than ever in our globalized world  Polizzotti makes one feel that creating and reading translated literature can be a genuinely pleasurable experience.
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  # Moscow, 1937
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  For Anya, our Muscovite, and for the indomitable members of Memorial
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  # Moscow, 1937
  
  
  ### Karl Schlögel
  
  
  _Translated by_  
  Rodney Livingstone
  
  
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  ##### First published in German as _Terror und Traum. Moskau 1937_ © Carl
  Hanser Verlag Munich, 2008
  
  
  ##### This English edition © Polity Press, 2012
  
  
  ##### This edition is subsidized by Geisteswissenschaften International –
  translation funding for Humanities and Social Sciences from Germany. A joint
  initiative of the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, the German Federal Foreign Office,
  and the German Publishers & Booksellers Association.
  
  
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