Abram Tertz: flight from the test tube.--Dostoevsky's and Solzhenitsyn's House of the dead.--Dostoevsky today.--Notes on Dostoevsky.--How Russia was crucified: Seeds of tomorrow, by M. Sholokhov.--Pasternak's Doctor Zhivago.--Russian modernism.--Evgeny Zamyatin: the Chagall of Russian literature.--Some relevant historical associations.--At the crossroads: notes on contemporary Russian prose.--The mission of Novy mir.--The moral of a polemic.--Why we are silent.--The unspoken defense