Readers, writers, and Soviet history
A passion for the printed word : postwar Soviet literature
Barometer of the epoch : Pomerantsev and the debate on sincerity
Naming the social evil : Dudintsev's ethical quest
Recalling the revolution : the Pasternak affair
Literature above literature : Tvardovskii's memory
Reassessing the moral order : Ehrenburg and the memory of the terror
Finding new words : Solzhenitsyn and the experience of terror
Discovering human rights : the Siniavskii-Daniel' trial
In search of authenticity : the legends and facts controversy
Last battles : the end of Tvardovskii's Novyi Mir
Epilogue: Tradition, change, legacies.