Marko Pavlyshan is Lecturer in the Department of Slavonic Languages at Monash University.

• Rethinking the past and the current thaw, Katerina Clark; establishing a model for "glasnost" - censorship, writers and literary forms in late 18th century Austria, Leslie Bodi; winter, thaw, spring - the Czech perspective, Pavel Petr; thaws, literature and the Nationalities discussion in Ukraine - the prose of Valerii Shevchuk, Marko Pavlyshyn; two thaws in Yugoslav philosophy, Aleksandar Pavkovic; looking back - the past in the Soviet Russian literary journal of 1987, Zhanna Dolgopolova; "Thaws" and the visual arts in the Soviet Union from the 1970s to 1987, Peter Stupples; the thaw in the Soviet theatre in 1953-54, Rosh Ireland; 1940 - not so much a thaw - more a change in the air; Amanda Metcalf and Janet Neville; April thaws in the poetry of Osip Mandel'shtam and Irina Ratushinskaia, Judith Armstrong; in expectation of a thaw - literary tradition as code in Akhmatova's "Poem Without a Hero", David Wells; Borys Antonenko-Davydovych's "Behind the Curtain" - limits of the thaw, David Farrer; fiction as history - L.P.Beria in thaw fiction, Kevin Windle.