Contenidos:Chapter 1. The emergence of a civil society
1. The dynamics of freedom / Alexander Shchelkin
2. Not all theaters are erotic / A. Kuznetsov
3. A nation begins with its women / Yevgeny Yevtushenko
4. A commonwealth of cultures / Ivan Dzyuba
5. Vilnius: a night in spring / Oleg Moroz
6. Confessions of a "renegade" / Piatras Keidoshus and Vitautas Petkiavicius
7. Faith without action is dead / Patriarch Alexei II
A letter from Russia's writers
Chapter 2. The changing role of the Party
9. Looking around at the pass / R. Safarov
10. Will the Party catch up with perestroika? / Alexei Kiva
11. Do we need yet another experiment?: ideological paradoxes of reform / Alexander Tsipko
12. The KGB has not changed its principles, yet / Oleg Kalugin
13. The striving for truth has not yet been suppressed / Nina Andreyeva
14. Enough talk! Let's get to work! / Ilya Zaslavsky
Chapter 3. The economy
15. The strike: sketches for a portrait of a phenomenon / Nina Maksimova
16. Property and freedom / Boris Pinsker and Larisa Piyasheva
17. To heaven on ration cards / Yuri Orlik
18. Why they work better than we do / M. Lapitsky
19. Finding a steward for the land / Georgy Podlesskikh
20. Help! The dollars are coming! / Sergei Novikov
21. The risk of going over to a market economy is less than the cost of marking time / Stanislav Shatalin
Chapter 4. Foreign policy and the military
22. How much defense is sufficient? / Alexei Arbatov
23. Enough defense, not enough competence / Yuri Lyubimov
24. From the shadows of the unknown: flashes of openness in the realm of military secrets / Stanislav Kondrashov
25. Russia: the Earth's heartland / Igor Malashenko
26. A time to learn what the events in Eastern Europe are telling us / Anatoly Butenko
27. Nation on the eve of war: subjective notes on the margins of letters from strangers / Irina Lagutina
Chapter 5. Personalities
28. Gorbachev talks to workers at the Izhora plant / Mikhail Gorbachev
29. There won't be a civil war / Boris Yeltsin
30. On the threshold of momentous changes / Alexander Yakovlev
31. "I believe in the people's soul and reason" / Yegor Ligachev
32. Ligachev addresses the constituent congress of the Russian Communists / Yegor Ligachev
33. Dimensions of freedom / Andrei Sakharov