Introduction: A Nation of Heroes and Villains ; The Relaunch of the Soviet Project ; About Labels and Sources
Chapter one. The Origins of the Shistdesiatnyky (1953-61) : De-Stalinization and the Dawn of the Thaw;- Khrushchev's View on the New Cultural Course ; The Rise of the Language Question and Educational Reform ; The Debate within Ukraine's Union of Writers ; A New Generation ; Les Taniuk and the Club of Creative Youth ; Andrii Skaba and the Ukrainian Biographic Dictionary ; Levko Lukianenko and the Ukrainian Workers' and Peasants' Union
Chapter two. The Shistdesiatnyky Address the Nation (1961-68): Ukraine's Union of Writers against Russification ; The National Question in the Club of Creative Youth ; The Prolisok Youth Club ; The End of the Thaw, and the Appointment of Petro Shelest -; The First Clash: From Alia Horska's Shevchenko Window to the Arrests ; Ukrainian Cinema and the Case of Shadows of Forgotten Ancestors ; Ivan Dziuba's Internationalism or Russification? ; Covering the Trials: The Work of Viacheslav Chornovil ; In and Out of the Mordovian Camp ; The Braichevsky Case and the Renaissance of Ukrainian Historiography ; A New Sense of Community: The Shistdesiatnyky and the Construction of a Public Political Space ; The Case of Oles Honchar's Sobor ; The World View of the Shistdesiatnyky ; The Scandal Peters Out
Chapter three. Repressions and Dissent (1968-73): The Spring Torch: Smoloskyp and the Prague Connection ; The "Letter from Creative Youth" and the Suppression of Dissent in Dnipropetrovsk ; Attacks in the Stalinist Mould ; Valentyn Moroz and Ivan Dziuba: Rivalry and Solidarity among the Shistdesiatnyky ; The Murder of Alia Horska ; The Founding of Ukrains'kyi visnyk ; The Moscow Shestidesiatniki and Leonid Pliushch ; Silencing Broader Cultural Initiatives ; The 1972 Pogrom ; The Repression of Minds ; Misplaced Hopes
Epilogue: What Remained of the Friendships ; What Remained of the Politics ; In Sum: Who the Shistdesiatnyky Were.