Termites and barking dogs -- Social capital and ideology -- Two scientists, two paths -- Foreign communists -- Three freelance diplomats -- A civil society : elite bears and doves -- Scientists and weaponeers -- In the hands of experts -- Do peace and democracy work? -- The Soviet peace movement at the time of the coup -- The end and the beginning -- From below and sideways -- Social traps : toward an explanation of totalitarianism -- Quest? What quest?