Eyewitness : [electronic resource] writings from the ordeal of Communism / edited and compiled by Ross Mackenzie and Todd Culbertson.

Includes bibliographical references (p. ix-x).

Part I. Nomenklatura and life -- The new class / Milovan Djilas -- Child of the revolution / Wolfgang Leonhard -- Nomenklatura / Michael Voslensky -- Stepping down from the star / Alexandra Costa -- Against the odds / Andrei Frolov and Lois Becker Frolov -- Red horizons / Ion Mihai Pacepa -- Alone together / Elena Bonner -- Russian doctor / Vladimir Golyakhovsky -- Part II. Apostasy -- Child of the revolution / Wolfgang Leonhard -- The Iron Curtain / Igor Gouzenko -- The bridge at Andau / James Michener -- To build a castle / Vladimir Bukovsky -- Mig pilot / John Barron -- On the wrong side / Stanislav Levchenko -- Part III. Flight -- For those still at sea / Simas Kudirka -- To dance / Valery Panov -- On the wrong side / Stanislav Levchenko -- Part IV. Prison, etc. -- History's carnival / Leonid Plyushch -- Journey into the whirlwind / Eugenia Ginzburg -- Coming out of the ice / Victor Herman -- Fear no evil / Natan Sharansky -- Memoirs / Petro Grigorenko -- I was a slave in Russia / John Noble -- Prison diaries / Edward Kuznetsov -- My testimony / Anatoly Marchenko -- Eleven years in Soviet prison camps / Elinor Lipper -- Part V. Mental -- Punitive medicine / Alexander Podrabinek -- Memoirs / Petro Grigorenko -- Ward 7 / Valeriy Taris -- Part VI. Camps -- The Yogi and the Commissar / Arthur Koestler -- A world apart / Gustav Herling -- Within the whirlwind / Eugenia Ginzburg -- To build a castle / Vladimir Bukovsky -- Eleven years in Soviet prison camps / Elinor Lipper -- My testimony / Anatoly Marchenko -- Prison diaries / Edward Kuznetsov -- I was a slave in Russia / John Noble -- Kolyma tales / Varlam Shalamov -- Fear no evil / Natan Sharansky.