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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Memoirs and Diaries Published at the End of the Soviet Epoch: An Overview | |
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| Publishers, Authors, Texts, Reader, Corpus | |
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| The Background: Memoir Writing and Historical Consciousness | |
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| Connecting the "I" and History | |
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| Revealing the Intimate | |
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| Building a Community | |
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| Moving in with a New Text | |
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| Joining the Ranks of Victims | |
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| Remembering Stalin: Tears | |
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| Disagreeing | |
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| Family Memoirs | |
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| Two Memoirs and a Novel Tell the Same Story | |
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| Generalizations: Soviet Memoirs as a Communal Apartment | |
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| Writing at the End | |
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| The Archive and the Apocalypse | |
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| The End of the Intelligentsia | |
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| Qualification: The "I" in Quotation Marks | |
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| Excursus: Readers Respond in LiveJournal | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Two Texts: Close Readings | |
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| Lidiia Chukovskaia's Diary of Anna Akhmatova's Life: "Intimacy and Terror" | |
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| The Years of Terror: In "the Torture Chamber" | |
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| Family and Home: "The Cesspit of a Communal Apartment" | |
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| Overview of Circumstances | |
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| The Apartment in Poems and Dreams | |
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| "To Have Dinner at the Same Table as Her Husband's Wife" | |
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| How Akhmatova Left Punin | |
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| Generalizations: The Soviet State, Domestic Space, and Intimacy | |
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| During the War | |
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| Poverty and Squalor: New Living Forms and New Insight | |
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| The Helplessness and the Power | |
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| Gossip | |
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| Hardships and Privileges | |
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| "A New Epoch Began": After | |
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| Did They Understand What Was Going On? | |
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| Akhmatova's Things and Manuscripts | |
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| An Aside: Memoirs as Historical Evidence | |
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| Historical Continuity: The 1930s and the 1960s | |
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| "Same Time, Same Faces, Different Memories" | |
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| Concluding Vignette: "She'll Tell You What 1937 Was Like" | |
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| The Notebooks of the Peasant Evgeniia Kiseleva: "The War Separated Us Forever" | |
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| Notebook 1: "The Story of My Life" | |
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| The Separation and the War | |
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| The Second Marriage | |
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| After the Second Marriage | |
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| Here and Now | |
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| Notebooks 2 and 3 | |
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| Memory and Narrative | |
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| Television and Emotion | |
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| Television and Apocalypsis | |
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| A Comment on Historical Continuity: The Past War and the FutureWar | |
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| Generalizations: The Soviet State in the Domestic Space | |
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| Citizens and Power | |
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| The End: "We Live Like Strangers" | |
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| How These Notebooks Reached the Reader: The Interpreters | |
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| Defining the Status of the Text: "Naive Writing" | |
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| The Competition between Publishers: "Legislators and Interpreters" | |
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| The Disappearance of the Author | |
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| "Person without Subjecthood" | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Dreams of Terror: Interpretations | |
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| Comments on Dreams as Stories and as Sources | |
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| Andrei Arzhilovsky: The Peasant Raped by Stalin | |
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| Nikolai Bukharin Dreams of Stalin: Abraham and Isaac | |
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| Writers' Dreams: Mikhail Prishvin | |
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| Writers' Dreams: Veniamin Kaverin | |
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| The Dreams of Anna Akhmatova | |
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| A Comment on Writers' and Peasants' Theories of Dreams | |
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| A Philosopher's Dreams: Yakov Druskin | |
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| Stalin's Dream | |
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| Concluding Remarks | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Epilogue | |
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| Appendix: Russian Texts | |
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| Notes | |
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| Index | |