Contents

• Foreword / Carl A. Linden. Why Not an Alternative? Beyond- Communism Dreamers. Toward Solzhenitsyn’s Path. The Purpose. A Polyphonic Choir. Concepts and Terminology
• Ch. 1: Beyond Gorbachev. Beyond Gorbachev: A New Russia. Letter to the Soviet Leaders: Solzhenitsyn’s 1973 Blueprint for Reforms. How Can We Make Russia Livable? Solzhenitsyn’s Humble Reflections on How to Save Russia
• Ch. 2: Beyond Marxism-Leninism: Voices of Glasnost 1987- 1988. Dmitrii Likhachev on Morality, Religion and Russian Heritage. Larisa Popkova on Socialist and Capitalist Pies. Iurii Korkhov on the Two Perestroikas. Aleksandr Iakovlev on the Law of the Concrete Wall. Nikolai Shmelev on "Market Socialism" Ol’ga Chaikovskaia on Pushkin. Valentin Rasputin on Order in a Soul. Vladimir Soloukhin: Standing Against Anti-Russian Power. Iurii Kariakin’s Defense of Russian Literature. Igor’ Kiiamkin: A National-Bolshevik? Vasilii Seliunin Attacks Lenin. Vadim Kozhinov, Igor’ Shafarevich, and Roy Medvedev on Stalinism. Kseniia Mialo on the Destruction of Russian Peasant Culture. Alla Latynina on the Culture of Polemics
• Ch. 3: Beyond Communism: Voices of Glasnost, 1989. Soviet Holocaust. Aleksandr Tsipko, "Sources of Stalinism" Igor’ Zolotusskii, "The Bankruptcy of Abstractions" Vladimir Shubkin, "A Difficult Farewell" Andrei Vasilevskii Reviews Gulag Memoirs. Sergei Zalygin, "On the Question of Immortality" Sergei Averintsev on Vladimir Solov’ev. Galina Litvinova on the Plight of the Russians. Dmitrii Balashov Applies Lev Gumilev’s Theory. Who Are the Russites?
• Ch. 4: Revolution and Russia. Debate. Who Is to Be Blamed: The Jews or the Russians? "Revolution for Russia or Russia for Revolution"? "Crime and Punishment" "What Needs to Be Done"? Commentary. Poisonous Ideas. The Bickerman Collection. Alexis Babine’s Diary. Rabbi Chaim Bermant on Radical Jews. John Cuddihy on the Jewish Ordeal of Civility. Peter Collier and David Horowitz: The Destructive Generation
• Ch. 5: Toward a New Russia: Building an Infrastructure. The Rehabilitation of the Russian Idea. Russophobia and Judophobia. Should Russia Secede? The Rehabilitation of Petr Stolypin. The Agony Has Started. What Is Ahead?
• Conclusion: A New Russia and the West. The Tower of Babel. From a Western Perspective. Whither Gorbachev?
• Appendix 1: Pamyat: A Force for Change?
• Appendix 2: Why Not Solzhenitsyn?
• Appendix 3 : From Communism’s Red Flag to Russia’s Tricolor