Table of Contents:
- Siberia / Colin Thubron
- Survivors / Angus Macqueen
- Moscow dynamo / Victor Pelevin
- Burying the bones / Orlando Figes
- The lost boys / Anna Pyasetskaya and Heidi Bradner
- The River Potudan / Andrei Platonov
- My grandmother, the censor / Masha Gessen
- The last eighteen drops / Vitali Vitaliev
- Panorama / John Ranard
- Peter Truth / Charlotte Hobson
- The Romanovs come to stay / Frances Welch
- St. Nikolai returns / Larry Towell
- Naples is closed / Barry Unsworth.