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David Satter. Never Speak to Strangers and Other Writing from Russia and the Soviet Union
Abbreviations and. Administrative Delineations
Introduction
Never Speak to Strangers
Impressions of Moscow: Beyond the Looking Glass
Soviets’ Long Queue to Nowhere
A Place in the Sun
No Appointments, No Service
Angry Russians Can’t Understand Inflation
The Dissidents Who Strive for. Western Freedoms in Russia
Support from Outside
Decision to Speak Out
Solzhenitsyn Fund
Unofficial Chronicle
Sympathetic Listeners
The Ghost in the Machine
The Price of Respectability
Taking a Healthy Rest
Treatment
The Price of Soviet Achievements
Terrible Cost
The Paradox
More Trade
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
Russian Backers
Agriculture
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
Flexibility
Hierarchical
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
The Bonus Claim Which Changed the Life of. Mr. Nikitin
Moscow Weighs Gains and Losses. Against Dictates of Ideology
Soviet Defeat in Poland
Complex
Crumbled
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
Workers Have No Rights
Prisoners Are Cheaper
The Soviets Freeze a Peace Worker
He Took Freedom for Granted
Prevented From Emigrating
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
A Feeling of Participation
Our Dangerous Silence
Treating Soviet Psychiatric Abuse
Propaganda Apparatus
Steps to ‘Convert’ or Silence
The Kremlin Tortures a Psychiatrist
Savage Beatings
A Powerful Force
Yuri Andropov: The Specter Vanishes
Two Areas of Opportunity
Individuals Interchangeable
Private Soviet Screenings of. Forbidden Films? Insane!
In New Gulag, Soviets. Turning to Murder by Neglect
Don’t Talk with Murderers
Practical Consequences
Remember Afghanistan
Moscow Feeds a Lap-Dog Foreign Press
Numbing Effect
No Relationship to Reality
Moscow’s ‘New Openness’ Illusion
Limited Reforms
Concentration of Power
A Test Case
Why Glasnost Can’t Work
A Journalist Who Loved His Country
Response to Fukuyama
Winter in Moscow
Setting the Sverdlovsk Story Straight
Moscow Believes in Tears
Between Yeltsin and a Hard Place
Prognosis: Uncertain
The Seeds of Soviet Instability
The Rise of Nationalism
The Lodestar of Totalitarianism
Yeltsin: Shadow of a Doubt
Gray October
Force vs. Consensus
A Tragic Master Plan
The Failure of Russian Reformers
Different Rights
Moral Legitimacy
Rude Awakening
Yeltsin: Modified Victory
Organized Crime Is Smothering. Russian Civil Society
The Wild East
The Shadow of Aum Shinri Kyo
The Cost of the Yeltsin Presidency
The Rise of the Russian Criminal State
The “Young Reformers”
Hyperinflation
Privatization
“Loans for Shares”
Criminalization
Russia’s New Capitalists
Economic Collapse
Demographic Catastrophe
Moral Crisis
Political Instability
Conclusion
The Human Rights Situation in Russia
Anatomy of a Massacre
The Shadow of Ryazan
Not so Quick
Death in Moscow
There to Talk?
Stalin’s Doing
High Costs
Stalin’s Legacy
A Low, Dishonest Decadence
The Rule of the Lawless
Live and Let Die
More Building, Fewer People
Terror in Russia: Myths and Facts
Ordinary Monsters
The Murder of Paul Klebnikov
The Tragedy of Beslan
The Communist Curse
Stalin Is Back
What Andropov Knew
G-8 Crasher
Nikita Khrushchev’s Hard Bargains
Who Killed Litvinenko?
Boris Yeltsin
Russia on Trial
Land for Peace
Putin Changes Jobs—and Russia
Poisonous Patriotism
Obama and Russia
Who Murdered These Russian Journalists?
Obama’s Outreach to Muslims. Won’t Achieve Its Goal
Putin Runs the Russian State —and the Russian Church Too
Mission to Moscow
Obama’s Russian Odyssey
Psyching out U.S. Leaders
The President’s Mission to Moscow
The Summit: Day 2
Natalya Estemirova
A Wounded Bear Is Dangerous
Pining for Authoritarianism
Remembering Beslan
Afghanistan: Lessons. from the Soviet Invasion
Yesterday Communism, Today Radical Islam
A Passion to Relive the Past
Road to ‘Zero’
Symposium: Is Hannah. Arendt Still Relevant?
Women Who Blow Themselves Up
A Hollow Achievement in Prague
Symposium: When Does a. Religion Become an Ideology?
That Russian Spy Ring: The Broader Meaning
Never Forget: New Fanatical Ideology, Same Prescription: Defeat
Khodorkovsky’s Fate
Putin’s Facade Begins to Crumble
Why Putin Is Tottering
The Character of Russia
Obama’s Open Microphone
Russia’s Chance for Redemption
Russia and the Communist Past
Awaiting the Next Revolution
Clinton in the WSJ Strays on Russia Relations
Punk-Rock Authoritarianism
The Long Shadow of “Nord Ost”
Russia’s Orphans
David Satter on Life in the Soviet Police State. Kolyma Tales by Varlam Shalamov (1980)
Landmarks by Nikolai Berdyaev, et. al (1909)
The Russian Tradition by Tibor Szamuely (1974)
Execution by Hunger: The Hidden Holocaust. by Miron Dolot (1985)
The Seven Days of Creation by Vladimir Maximov (1971)
Russians Arrest CIA Agent
The NSA and the Soviet Union
Obama Defends Putin
Russia’s False Concern for Children
Putin and Obama in St. Petersburg
The Curse of Russian “Exceptionalism”
Snowden’s New Identity
Did Putin Insult the Pope?
Why Journalists Frighten Putin
Open Letter to Margarita Simonyan, Chief Editor of Russia Today
My Expulsion from Russia
Putin’s Shaky Hold on Power
The Russian State of Murder Under Putin
Putin Is No Partner on Terrorism
A Double Game on Terrorism
Fundamentally Different Goals
Russia Questions for Rex Tillerson
The ‘Trump Report’ Is a Russian Provocation
Trump Gives a Boost to Putin’s Propaganda
From Russia With Chaos
Trump Must Stand Strong Against Putin
How America Helped Make. Vladimir Putin Dictator for Life
Who Killed Boris Nemtsov?
100 Years of Communism —and 100 Million Dead
A Christmas Encounter. With the ‘Russian Soul’
How to Answer Russia’s Escalation
Putin’s Aggression Is the Issue in Helsinki
The Satirist Who Mocked the Kremlin —and Russian Character
When Russian Democracy Died
Contribution to “We Need Sakharov”
Collusion or Russian Disinformation?
A Pioneer Who Witnessed Revolutions
Hold Russia Accountable for MH17
Afterword to English Language. Edition of Judgment in Moscow
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