Predrag Matvejevic, vice president of the International PEN Club He is member of the Praxis group of the 1970s, which included such figures as Ernst Bloch, Herbert Marcuse, and Jürgen Habermas, he was a leading dissident Yugoslav intellectual through the early 1990s, when he emigrated to Paris, teaching for several years at the Sorbonne. Later he moved to Rome, where he now teaches at La Sapienza.

Acknowledgments A Note on Source Texts A Note on the Transliteration of Russian Book One: Heroides To My Forebears Seven Thousand Days in Siberia Sinyavsky-Daniel Brodsky Eurasian Letters (continued) The Gulag Archipelago Book Two: Steles Soviet Itineraries (continued) On Letters, Open and Closed Kolyma To Varlam Shalamov Russian Letters (continued) Hostage to the Truth Cause for Dismissal Yellow Star, White Star Confession Book Three: Epitaphs Rehabilitations Nikolai Bukharin Kropotkin, the Dark Prince Maksim Gorky Lev Trotsky Goli Otok: Another Gulag Book Four: Apologias Mikhail Bulgakov Nadezhda Mandelshtam Ariadna Efron Kruzhok. Portraits of Stalin On the Perestroika of Writers For Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev Archives and Memory For a New Dissidence An Interrogation Our Disappointments: To Brodsky Final Letters Heirs without Heritage Emigration and Dissidence The Collapse of the Intelligentsia Okudzhava’s Response A Perverted Slavicism The Gulag So Long Ago To Franjo Tudman Afterword: An Open Letter to the Reader