Chapters in this book

1. Front Matter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Dystopia West, Dystopia East 3
5. Dystopia West
6. What is Justice? The Answers of Utopia, Tragedy, and Dystopia 25
7. Nineteenth-Century Precursors of the Dystopian Vision 43
8. The Dictator behind the Mask: Zamiatin’s We, Huxley’s Brave New World, and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-four 56
9. Dictatorship without a Mask: Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451, Vonnegut’s Player Piano, and Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale 88
10. Dystopia East: The Soviet Union 1920s–1950s
11. The Writer on Trial: Socialist Realism and the Exile of Speculative Fiction 115
12. The Dystopia of Revolutionary Justice: Serge’s Conquered City, Zazubrin’s “The Chip,” and Rodionov’s Chocolate 132
13. The Legalization of Terror: Platonov’s The Foundation Pit, Ribakov’s The Children of the Arbat, and Koestler’s Darkness at Noon 152
14. Terror in War, Terror in Peace: Grossman’s Life and Fate, Tertz Sinyavski’s The Trial Begins, and Daniel’s This is Moscow Speaking 182
15. Dystopia East: The Soviet Bloc 1950s–1980s
16. Collective Paranoia: The Persecutor and the Persecuted: Andzrejewski, Déry, Fuks, Hlasko, Örkény, Vaculik, and Mrozek 207
17. Kafka’s Ghost: The Trial as Theatre: Klima’s The Castle, Karvas’s The Big Wig, and Havel’s Memorandum 221
18. From Terror to Entropy: The Downward Spiral: Konwicki’s A Minor Apocalypse, Déry’s Mr G.A. in X, and Zinoviev’s The Radiant Future 233
19. Speculative Fiction Returns from Exile: Dystopian Vision with a Sneer: Voinovich’s Moscow 2042, Aksyonov’s The Island of Crimea, Dalos’s 1985, and Moldova’s Hitler in Hungary 249
20. Dystopia East and West: Conclusion 267
21. Notes 287
22. Bibliography 305
23. Index 319