Table of Contents

1. The Death of Stalin.- 2. The Ordinary Soviet Russian.- 3. “Thieves” in the USSR as a Social Phenomenon.- 4. The Psychology of the Soviet Leaders.- 5. The Inner World of the Soviet Intelligentsia.- 6. The Revival of the Russian Intelligentsia and Dissent.- 7. The Russian Intelligentsia and Its Religious Revival.- 8. Free Literature and Songs.- 9. Pasternak, Solzhenitsyn and Sakharov.- 10. Yuri Andropov: A Recent Leader of Russia.- 11. The Impact of the Russian Past on Its Present.- Notes.- Index of Names.- Index of Subjects.