Andrei Sinyavsky is the author of The Makepeace Experiment; Goodnight; Soviet Civilizaton: A Cultural History; and Strolling with Pushkin. In exile from the U.S.S.R. since the 1970's, he was professor of Slavic studies at the Sorbonne until his retirement in 1974.

An unflinching, passionate account of what has gone wrong in Russia since the collapse of the Bolshevik system-and of the complicity of the most privileged segment of the intelligentsia in the Yeltsin-era crimes and catastrophes--by a voice of incomparable moral authority, intelligence, and persuasiveness. Susan Sontag

• Introduction Strolls with Pushkin A Journey to the River Black Remembering Cathy Nepomnyaschchy and Slava Yastremski Notes Notes on the Text