NEVER SPEAK TO STRANGERS AND OTHER WRITING FROM RUSSIA AND THE SOVIET UNION

Intro -- Abbreviations and Administrative Delineations -- Introduction -- Never Speak to Strangers -- Impressions of Moscow: Beyond the Looking Glass -- Soviets' Long Queue to Nowhere -- Angry Russians Can't Understand Inflation -- The Dissidents Who Strive for Western Freedoms in Russia -- The Ghost in the Machine -- The Price of Respectability -- Taking a Healthy Rest -- The Price of Soviet Achievements -- A Burning Issue -- From Russia Without Love -- Trials of the Workers -- The Price of Calling the Helsinki Bluff -- Shaken, but Ready to Rise Again -- Soviet Dissent and the Cold War

Why Moscow Has Georgia on Its Mind -- Angry Nationalist Struggle Against Soviet Power -- Afghanistan's Rocky Road to Socialism -- Russia's 'Civilised North' -- Moscow Yields to 'Interference' -- Tensions Between Systems Show at Summit -- Bitter-Sweet Search for Ancestors in Ukraine -- The Crime That Can Only Exist Behind Closed Borders -- Planning and Politics Strangle the Soviet Economy -- Josef Stalin's Legacy Leaves Soviet Leaders in Dilemma -- Sakharov's Arrest Links Dissidence with Detente -- The Limits of Detente -- 200 Soviet Officials Held -- Fighting a War of Shadows

Moscow Starts 'Phoney War' Over Peace -- Why the Russians Think They Have Taken Schmidt for a Ride -- Russia Through the Looking Glass -- View from Middle Russia -- How the Kremlin Kept Moscow Under Wraps -- Russia Keeping Its Hands off Poland -- Where Some Miners Are More Equal Than Others -- Moscow Weighs Gains and Losses Against Dictates of Ideology -- Soviet Defeat in Poland -- Few Goods in Grocery Store 7 -- The Soviet View of Information -- A Match for the Soviets -- The KGB Puts Down a Marker -- The System of Forced Labor in Russia -- The Soviets Freeze a Peace Worker

What Russia Tells Russians About Afghanistan -- The Legacy of Leonid Brezhnev -- The Soviets Slam the Door on Jewish Emigration -- Soviet Threat Is One of Ideas More Than Arms -- Treating Soviet Psychiatric Abuse -- The Kremlin Tortures a Psychiatrist -- Yuri Andropov: The Specter Vanishes -- Private Soviet Screenings of Forbidden Films? Insane! -- In New Gulag, Soviets Turning to Murder by Neglect -- Don't Talk with Murderers -- Moscow Feeds a Lap-Dog Foreign Press -- Moscow's 'New Openness' Illusion -- A Test Case -- Why Glasnost Can't Work -- A Journalist Who Loved His Country

Response to Fukuyama -- Winter in Moscow -- Setting the Sverdlovsk Story Straight -- Moscow Believes in Tears -- The Seeds of Soviet Instability -- Yeltsin: Shadow of a Doubt -- A Tragic Master Plan -- The Failure of Russian Reformers -- Rude Awakening -- Yeltsin: Modified Victory -- Organized Crime Is Smothering Russian Civil Society -- The Wild East -- The Shadow of Aum Shinri Kyo -- The Cost of the Yeltsin Presidency -- The Rise of the Russian Criminal State -- The Human Rights Situation in Russia -- Anatomy of a Massacre -- The Shadow of Ryazan -- Not so Quick -- Death in Moscow

David Satter arrived in the Soviet Union in June 1976 as the correspondent of the Financial Times of London and entered a country that was a giant theater of the absurd. The articles in this collection are a chronicle of Russia from the day Satter arrived in the Soviet Union until the present.

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