Prologue: 2 June 1962

Nikita Khrushchev's revolution of multiple futures (1917-53)

Part one: The dictatorship that loves you (1953-64). The man of the people with blood on his hands ; Gagarin's conquest ; The glittering metropolis ; The boundary between two environments ; Slush

Part two: Eternal red star (1965-74). New year with Brezhnev ; People in uniform ; To the square ; Socialist bodies ; A string bag ; On stage, off stage

Part three: Faded paradise (1975-84). Oil fields and silver birches ; Hammer and sicle as far as the eye can see ; Homo sovieticus ; The danger society ; Misfits ; The life cycle of eternal socialism

Part four: The country that committed suicide by accident (1985-91). The last revolutionary ; Phone call to Gorky ; The end of Soviet civilization

Afterword.