I Chose Freedom: The Personal and Political Life of a Soviet Official

I. Flight in the Night, 1 
II. A Russian Childhood, 6 
III. Glory and Hunger, 19 
IV. Youth in the Red, 34 
V. Break with the Past, 50 
VI. A Student in Kharkov, 59 
VII. Triumph of the Machine, 74 
VIII. Horror in the Village, 91 
IX. Harvest in Hell, 110
X. My First Purge, 132 
XI. Eliena\'s Secret, 148 
XII. Engineer at Nikopol, 167 
XIII. Faster, Faster!, 187 
XIV. Super-Purge, 206
XV. My Ordeal Begins, 221
XVI. A Search for Justice, 238 
XVII. Torture After Midnight, 256 
XVIII. Labor: Free and Slave, 278 
XIX. While History Is Edited, 298 
XX. Siberian Hoax, 316
XXI. While Europe Fights, 332
XXII. The Unexpected War, 352
XXIII. Panic in Moscow, 372 
XXIV. The Kremlin in Wartime, 393 
XXV. The Two Truths, 412 
XXVI. Prelude to America, 436 
XXVII. Stalin’s Subjects Abroad, 455 
XXVIII. Fugitive from Injustice, 473
Postscript, 480
Index, 483