pt. 1. ch. 1. Critical method: mirrors and identities -- ch. 2. The ideology of Russian literary tradition -- pt. 2. ch. 3. Herzen's fiction: an affective verity -- ch. 4. Dostoevsky: the Christian ego -- ch. 5. Leontiev's prickly rose -- ch. 6. Tolstoy's ideological order: Herzen and War and peace -- ch. 7. Ideology as control: Tolstoy and Fadeyev -- ch. 8. The hopes of ideology: conclusion.