Bitter Harvest: The Intellectual Revolt behind the Iron Curtain

Table of contents

• Title Page iii
• Editor's Foreword vii
• Acknowledgments xi
• Contents xiii
• Introduction xvii
• 1. The Sense of Malaise 1
• We Take off for Heaven 3
• Behind the Brick Wall 12
• The Levers 25
• The Sixteen-Year-Old 40
• Long Journey 42
• 2. The Goals of Socialism 45
• What is Socialism? 47
• A Heap of Machinery 51
• The Unfinished Song 56
• A Letter 63
• Quarantine 66
• Class Struggle 69
• Notes from Amerdaganda 73
• "A Point, Mister?" Or, Everything Has Changed 78
• 3. The Moral Issue: Ends, Means, And The Sense of Guilt 87
• A Meeting of Two Young Men 89
• Responsibility and History 94
• 4. Party, State, And The New Class 127
• A Poem for Adults 129
• The Young Woman Doctor On Prezydencka Street 138
• A Young Man in The Organization Department 143
• Is This the Twilight of Marxism? 158
• A Light in the Window 166
• 5. The Silent Land 175
• Journey Home 177
• Mud 190
• Laddy 193
• 6. Art, Science, and The Free Intellect 221
• The Lessons of Stendhal 223
• For the Dignity of Science 237
• Two Kinds of Truth 243
• The Principles of a Shrewd Canary 246
• Some Observations on Literary Censorship And Freedom 248
• Beast in an Enclosure 254
• At the Same Time 256
• A Personal Opinion 260
• 7. National Communism -- National Identity 273
• Hungarian Integrity and The Five Principles of Coexistence 275
• The Testament of a Party Rebel 290
• National Communism 299

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