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.
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