An End to silence: uncensored opinion in the Soviet Union: from Roy Medvedev's underground magazine Political diary

A collection of historical exposes, political essays, and uncensored records of closed meetings FRONT Contents Editor's Preface: Roy Medvedev and Political Diary Introduction How Political Diary Was Created STEPHEN F. COHEN • The Stalin Question since Stalin 1 The Crimes of the Stalin Era The Stalin Cult Has Been Destroyed A Posthumous Indictment of Stalin The Son Does Not Answer For the Father The Terror and the War Tales of the Stalin Years Our Fate Days of Shame and Sorrow Kolyma and a Letter to Friends Rebellion in the Northern Camps Fisherman 2 Guilt and Responsibility Recriminations: Party Writers Discuss the Past Fadeyev's Suicide Where Are Stalin's Accomplices Today Sverdlov' s Son I Accuse A Critical Review of a Victim's Memoirs The Defense of a Prison-Camp Official Open Letter to Konstantin Fedin 3 Neo-Stalinism The Danger of a Revival of Stalinism A Meeting of Party Officials Recensoring the Past: Lydia Chukovskaya Sues a Soviet Publisher "Profound Truthfulness," Not Publishable Varieties of Neo-Stalinism Establishment Intellectuals Protest to Brezhnev Anti-Stalinist Poems The Charms of the Whip The Killing of Novy mir: In Lieu of an Obituary 4 Currents of Soviet Opinion and Dissent Viewpoints on Leadership and Politics The Struggle for Soviet Ideology: Marxists vs. Slavophiles The Real State of the Economy Scientists and Nuclear War Viewpoints on the Possibility of a Soviet-Chinese War A Deported Nation Appeals to President Mikoyan The Jewish Question in the USSR: Theses Solzhenitsyn and Censorship To Hope or to Act: A Reply to Sakharov Protest and Reprisal Confrontation at the Coffin From Intellectual Ferment to an Intellectual Movement 5 August 1968: The Winter of Communist Reform I Cannot Sleep A Refutation of the Soviet Invasion Russia's Shame 6 Toward a Moscow Spring Words Are Also Deeds Medvedev on Grigorenko on Sakharov A Program for Democratization Detente, Disarmament, and Democratization Appendix: Contents of All Available Issues of Political Diary Index Introduction -- The Crimes Of The Stalin Era -- Guilt And Responsibility -- Neo-stalinism -- Currents Of Soviet Opinion And Dissent -- August 1968 : The Winter Of Communist Reform -- Toward A Moscow Spring?. Edited And With Introductions By Stephen F. Cohen ; Translated By George Saunders. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.