Contents
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Dramatis Personae
Prologue: Zhivkov's Geranium
Part 1. Leningrad: From the Siege of 1941 to 1991
1. Stalin's Children: The Leningraders
2. Stalin's Children: Birds in Transit
3. Studying Labor Disputes in the 1960s
4. Zastoi or Stagnation, 1965 to 1985
5. Last Days of Leningrad
Part 2. St. Petersburg: A City Adrift, 1991 to 1994
6. The Political Background
7. An Apartment and a Telephone
8. The Market Wreaks Havoc
9. From the Caucasus to the Far North
10. Survival Strategies
Part 3. St. Petersburg: The New City, 1995 to 2017
11. Great Expectations . . . and Restoration
12. Farewell to St. Petersburg
Postscript