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Part One. Revolutions, Ideas, and the End of the Soviet Union: 1. The "mystery" of the Soviet collapse and the theory of revolutions; For truth and goodness: the credos of glasnost

Part Two. Who Are We?:Inside the "deafened zone"; In search of history; "The innocent, the slandered, the exterminated"; The peasant hecatomb; The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, I: food, housing, medical care, the "golden childhood", and the standard of living; The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, II: progress, the "state of workers and peasants", equality, "freedom from exploitation", Novocherkassk; The unraveling of the legitimizing myths, III: the Great Patriotic War; The "immoral" economy; The "disintegration of souls": homo sovieticus

Part Three.Who is to blame?: The house that Stalin built: the master state and its political economy; De-individualization, the "original sin", and the nationalization of conscience

Part Four. What Is to be Done?: Stalin, memory, repentance, atonement; The "spirit of freedom" and the power of nyet; The freedom canon: Mandelstam, Dombrovsky, Solzhenitsyn, Platonov, Grossman; In man's image, I: "privatizing" the state and economy; In man's image, II: the empire, the "garrison state", and the world

Epilogue.

Social action > Soviet Union.

Social change > Soviet Union.

Values > Soviet Union.

Collective memory > Soviet Union.

Soviet Union > History > 1985-1991.

Soviet Union > Moral conditions.

Soviet Union > Intellectual life > 1970-1991.