An Embarrassment of Tyrannies Twenty-Five

The writings, many by such renowned authors as Nadine Gordimer, Arthur Miller, and Julio Cortazar, cover the issues with careful even-handedness. Ariel Dorfman writes from the experience of the Chilean dictatorship and imagines a training course for salesmen of torture equipment; Alexander Solzhenitsyn has a fragment of poetry recalling his own period in a labor camp in Kazakhstan; Wale Soginka writes powerfully in defense of Salman Rushie'”a truly disturbing piece. A great tribute to Index 's achievements, this collection celebrates without being self-congratulatory. Its contributors provide elegant testimony to the human spirit's capacity for survival and its continuing struggle for freedom.

Preface	p. 15
An embarrassment of tyrannies	p. 17
Letter to Europeans	p. 25
With concern for those not free	p. 39
And you, candle	p. 45
Poems	p. 46
'God keep me from going mad'	p. 48
Interview with Joseph Brodsky	p. 51
A writer's freedom	p. 57
A cup of coffee with my interrogator	p. 64
Cemetery of words	p. 71
The sin of power	p. 76
Distractions	p. 82
Apocalypse at Solentiname	p. 84
Pale browns and yellows	p. 91
Manuscripts banned and destroyed	p. 94
Variation on an eternal theme	p. 99
Open letter to President Husak	p. 104
A convenient illusion	p. 107
Why should music be censorable?	p. 110
Madness	p. 112
Last chance?	p. 115
In memoriam	p. 119
'When they beat us, we suffer'	p. 122
A simple solution	p. 126
Two poems	p. 130
File 2819	p. 132
My temptation	p. 134
Trademark territory	p. 139
So where do we go for freedom?	p. 147
Jihad for freedom	p. 151
The train of wonders	p. 158
Here is the patriotically censored news	p. 162
LOW warspeak	p. 167
Suffer the little children	p. 170
The Lubianka's hidden treasure: an interview with Vitaly Shentalinsky	p. 177
From wimps to warriors	p. 182
Should Index be above the battle?	p. 186
China is a world problem	p. 196
Not a special case	p. 200
Gentle reader	p. 202
Goodnight, Croatian writers	p. 204
A new map of censorship	p. 211
Sweet home of liberty	p. 218
Standing in the queue	p. 226
The Bosnian bull	p. 229
The last despot and the end of Nigerian history?	p. 232
Daring to speak one's name	p. 241
The dark cloud over Turkey	p. 251
A bright, shining hell	p. 257
Rewriting history	p. 259
Beyond 2001	p. 266
No end in sight	p. 270
Market takes all	p. 280
After Chernobyl: confusion and deceit	p. 282
A liquidator's story	p. 290
Bosnian diary: Who goes home?	p. 292
No room for books	p. 299
Urbicides, massacres, common graves	p. 301
Astrakhan on the Kremlin towers	p. 308
The truth, the whole truth and nothing but...	p. 317
Articles of faith	p. 320
Cost of a miracle	p. 332
Whatever happened to Soviet childhood?	p. 340
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