Table of Contents
PART I - LEARNING TO LEARN ABOUT RUSSIA AND COMMUNISM
CHAPTER ONE - THE COMMUNISM PROBLEM IN FARMERSBURG
CHAPTER TWO - TECHNOLOGICAL COMPETITION AND THE COLD WAR
PART II - STUDENT DAYS AT MOSCOW UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER THREE - NO SINGING ALLOWED AT MOSCOW UNIVERSITY
CHAPTER FOUR - LENNIE IN THE WORKERS’ PARADISE
CHAPTER FIVE - RURAL RUSSIA AND THE FORBIDDEN FISH
CHAPTER SIX - AN AMERICAN SIT-IN AND A RUSSIAN RIOT
CHAPTER SEVEN - THE FATE OF MY CLOSEST RUSSIAN FRIEND
CHAPTER EIGHT - THE VODKA CAPER
PART III - RESEARCH IN THE USSR
CHAPTER NINE - THE MEANING OF SCIENCE IN RUSSIA
CHAPTER TEN - THE AMERICAN COLONY IN THE SOVIET UNION
CHAPTER ELEVEN - THE BIGGEST FRAUD IN BIOLOGY
CHAPTER TWELVE - PETER KAPITSA, A MAN OF MANY PARTS
CHAPTER THIRTEEN - I BREAK INTO THE AMBASSADOR’S HOUSE
CHAPTER FOURTEEN - THE BRAVERY OF BUKHARIN’S WIDOW
CHAPTER FIFTEEN - FILMING REFUSENIKS AND DISSIDENTS IN MOSCOW
PART IV - INTELLIGENCE, THE COLD WAR, AND SECURITY CONCERNS
CHAPTER SIXTEEN - THE SCHOLAR WHO DISAPPEARED
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN - BEING FOLLOWED
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN - SPIES AND SCHOLARS
PART V - FROM THE USSR TO POST-COMMUNIST RUSSIA
CHAPTER NINETEEN - A MAN OF FERVOR
CHAPTER TWENTY - THE SOVIET UNION AND I COLLAPSE TOGETHER
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE - AN AMBIGUOUS FUNERAL
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO - GEORGE SOROS TRIES TO SAVE RUSSIAN SCIENCE AND CULTURE
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE - DEATH OF AN OLD AMERICAN COMMUNIST
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To my friends in Russia,