Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Literature and Politics in Russia -- 2 The Disappearing Text: Reading Subversion Between the Lines -- 3 The Dangerous Narrative of the Russian Village -- 4 Russians and "Others": The Text as Territory -- 5 Righteousness and the Value of Suffering -- 6 The End of Soviet Literature and the Last Dangerous Text . . . -- Afterword -- Notes -- Index.