The Requiem Mass of the Intelligentsia
The first vision of Totalitarianism
The classics of the Revolutionary Era
The heroic period of Communist education
The suffering of the Acmeists
Alexei Tolstoy - the workers' and peasants' count
Ilya Ehrenburg - literary provocateur
Summing up: the party and art
Thomas Mann and the Weimar Republic
The Anna Seghers - Georg Lukács dispute
Brecht - wanderer between two worlds
The art of mental reservation
The literary confession of a Minister of Culture
A balance sheet of the Hitler-Stalin War
Summing up: literature behind the Wall
The grand old men of Socialist literature
Italy between black and red
The revolutionary wave recedes
Summing up: engagement and utopia.
