Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Note on Transliteration and Translation
Introduction
1. Aitmatov and Kirghizstan
2. First Steps
3. Farewell, Gul'sary! Coming to Terms with the Stalinist Past
4. The White Ship: Outcry in a Soulless World
5. Aitmatov in the 1970's: Confronting and Transcending Soviet Reality
6. The Day Lasts More than a Hundred Years: Defining Soviet Mankurtization
7. Soviet Society at the Corssroads: "New Thinking" and The Place of the Skull
Conclusion
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography
Index