Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Table of Contents vii
3. Illustrations ix
4. Preface and Acknowledgments xi
5. Introduction 1
6. CHAPTER ONE. Becoming Soviet 3
7. PART I. Class Identities
8. CHAPTER TWO. The Bolshevik Invention Of 29
9. CHAPTER THREE. Class Identities In NEP Society 51
10. CHAPTER FOUR. Class and Soslovie 71
11. PART II. Lives
12. CHAPTER FIVE. Lives under Fire 91
13. CHAPTER SIX. The Two Faces of Anastasia 102
14. CHAPTER SEVEN. Story of a Peasant Striver 114
15. CHAPTER EIGHT. Women’s Lives 125
16. PART III. Appeals
17. CHAPTER NINE. Supplicants and Citizens 155
18. CHAPTER TEN. Patrons and Clients 182
19. PART IV. Denunciations
20. CHAPTER ELEVEN. Signals from Below 205
21. CHAPTER TWELVE. Wives’ Tales 240
22. PART V. Impostures
23. CHAPTER THIRTEEN. The World of Ostap Bender 265
24. CHAPTER FOURTEEN. The Con Man as Jew 282
25. Afterword
26. CHAPTER FIFTEEN. Becoming Post-Soviet 303
27. Suggested Further Reading 319
28. Index 323