Contents -- Introduction: Readers, Writers, and Soviet History -- 1. A Passion for the Printed Word: Postwar Soviet Literature -- 2. Barometer of the Epoch: Pomerantsev and the Debate on Sincerity -- 3. Naming the Social Evil: Dudintsev's Ethical Quest -- 4. Recalling the Revolution: The Pasternak Affair -- 5. Literature above Literature: Tvardovskii's Memory -- 6. Reassessing the Moral Order: Ehrenburg and the Memory of Terror -- 7. Finding New Words: Solzhenitsyn and the Experience of Terror -- 8. Discovering Human Rights: The Siniavskii-Daniel' Trial -- 9. In Search of Authenticity: The "Legends and Facts" Controversy -- 10. Last Battles: The End of Tvardovskii's Novyi mir -- Epilogue: Tradition, Change, Legacies -- Archives Consulted -- Notes -- Acknowledgments -- Index.