A veteran American journalist who spent four years in Moscow as bureau chief for the Washington Post describes the people he met.

INCLUDES INDEX.

The way in -- The Workers' Paradise -- Alexei Nikitin's crime -- And punishment -- The doctor -- The hidden empire -- Andrei Dmitrievich Sakharov -- Sakharov and the bomb -- Elena Georgevna Bonner -- Elena Bonner and the state -- Ruf Grigorevna Bonner : the genealogy of repression -- The battle for Lisa -- Soviet reality : lessons for living -- Pilgrimage to a funeral -- Censorship wars -- The way out.