Acknowledgments A Note on Source Texts A Note on the Transliteration of Russian Book One: Heroides To My Forebears Seven Thousand Days in Siberia Sinyavsky-Daniel Brodsky Eurasian Letters (continued) The Gulag Archipelago Book Two: Steles Soviet Itineraries (continued) On Letters, Open and Closed Kolyma To Varlam Shalamov Russian Letters (continued) Hostage to the Truth Cause for Dismissal Yellow Star, White Star Confession Book Three: Epitaphs Rehabilitations Nikolai Bukharin Kropotkin, the Dark Prince Maksim Gorky Lev Trotsky Goli Otok: Another Gulag Book Four: Apologias Mikhail Bulgakov Nadezhda Mandelshtam Ariadna Efron Kruzhok. Portraits of Stalin On the Perestroika of Writers For Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Archives and Memory For a New Dissidence An Interrogation Our Disappointments: To Brodsky Final Letters Heirs without Heritage Emigration and Dissidence The Collapse of the Intelligentsia Okudzhava’s Response A Perverted Slavicism The Gulag So Long Ago To Franjo Tudman Afterword: An Open Letter to the Reader