Cover -- Halftitle Page -- Title Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword by Martin Sixsmith -- Introduction -- 1 Sympathies in the struggle: Reporting Russia in revolution, 1917 -- 2 'The press is lying, or does not know': Russia goes to war with itself -- 3 From 'A wild and barbarous country' via starvation to Stalinism -- 4 Believe everything but the facts -- 5 But what a story everything tells here: The Great Patriotic War -- 6 Secrets, censorship and cocktails with the Central Committee -- 7 A window on the country: Reporting reform and ruin

8 'Free for all': The Yeltsin era -- 9 Becoming strong again? -- 10 Russia: My History -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Imprint