Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union. David Satter

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      ibidem-Press, Stuttgart

      Content

       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

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