Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part 1: The Spanish Civil War -- 1. Commentary: The Spanish Labyrinth -- 2. Malraux: Days of Hope -- 3. Hemingway: For Whom the Bell Tolls -- 4. Dos Passos: Betrayal -- 5. Orwell: Homage to Catalonia -- 6. Koestler: Sentence of Death -- Part 2: The God That Failed -- 7. Commentary: The Soviet Trials -- 8. Beyond Darkness at Noon -- 9. Serge: The Case of Comrade Tulayev -- 10. Orwell: From Big Pig to Big Brother -- 11. Commentary: Totalitarianism, Ideology, Power -- 12. Sartre: History, Fiction and the Party -- 13. Commentary: Soviet Forced Labour Camps -- 14. Koestler: and the Little Flirts -- 15. Commentary: Fellow-Travellers -- 16. Greene: The Quiet American -- Part 3: History and Fiction in the Soviet Orbit -- 17. Commentary: The Socialist Realist Novel from War to Cold War -- 18. The Tragic Case of Vasily Grossman -- 19. Commentary: Collectivization -- 20. Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago -- 21. Chukovskaya: Honour among Women -- 22. Commentary: Purge and Terror -- 23. The Iron Fist: The Trial of Daniel and Sinyavsky -- 24. Foreign Affairs: The Menace of Kafka -- 25. Germany Doubly Divided: Christa Wolf and Uwe Johnson -- Part 4: Solzhenitsyn -- 26. One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich -- 27. The First Circle -- 28. Commentary: Stalin and Lenin in Soviet Fiction -- 29. From Cancer Ward to The Gulag Archipelago -- 30. Commentary: Bureaucracy, the New Class and Double Standards -- 31. Vladimov: Faithful Ruslan -- Part 5: The American Novel and the New Politics -- 32. Commentary: Fiction, the New Journalism, and the Postmodern -- 33. Mailer: The Armies of the Night -- 34. Fiction and the Rosenbergs: E.L. Doctorow and Robert Coover -- Conclusion -- References and Notes -- Bibliography -- Name Index -- Subject Index