Contentsxi
9 Coming to terms and seeking new terms: from the first Thaw (1956) to the end of
the millennium220
The intelligentsia and the camps
(Solzhenitsyn)224
The Underground Woman (Petrushevskaya)230
Three ways for writers to treat matter
(Sorokin, Pelevin, Akunin)238
Notes250
Glossary269
Guide to further reading282
Index285