Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface and Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. 1. In the Town of Berdichev 7
6. 2. From Science to Literature and Politics 29
7. 3. Facts on the Ground: The Donbass 50
8. 4. Great Expectations 66
9. 5. The Dread New World 85
10. 6. The Inevitable War 105
11. 7. 1941 131
12. 8. The Battle of Stalingrad 144
13. 9. Arithmetic of Brutality 168
14. 10. A Soviet Tolstoy 200
15. 11. Toward Life and Fate 229
16. 12. The Novel 252
17. 13. An Unrepentant Heretic 271
18. 14. Everything Flows 295
19. 15. Keep My Words Forever 314
20. Epilogue 333
21. Notes 343
22. Bibliography 385
23. Index 395