Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xvii
5. Chapter 1. Literature and Politics in Russia 1
6. Chapter 2. The Disappearing Text: Reading Subversion Between the Lines 51
7. Chapter 3. The Dangerous Narrative of the Russian Village 75
8. Chapter 4. Russians and “Others”: The Text as Territory 102
9. Chapter 5. Righteousness and the Value of Suffering 132
10. Chapter 6. The End of Soviet Literature and the Last Dangerous Text ... 160
11. Afterword. Dangerous Texts in the New Russia 206
12. Notes 219
13. Index 267