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First published in English in Glas No.9 these novels are saturated with an emotional intensity and inescapable terror. They chart the traumatic decades of Stalinism which today's "scared generation" of middle-aged Russians had to experience. Revised for this edition they will serve as badly-needed vivid reminders of those inhuman times, because it is not only in Russia that nostalgic feelings for Stalinism are strong again. In Vasil Bykov's powerful short novel The Manhunt, a dispossessed farmer is betrayed by his son in the collectivized countryside of the 1930s. He is exiled to Siberia but runs away to visit his native land where he is hunted by the Soviet police, and finally prefers death to infamy. Set in Moscow in the 1950s, Boris Yampolsky's classic, The Regime Street, focuses on one day in the life of an innocent person persecuted by the KGB. He is not at all surprised to find himself being followed, and hence doomed to eventual arrest, because arrests are conducted on a mass scale. Wandering about the city at night he looks back on his life trying to understand where things went wrong. He was fearless during WWII but in the Stalinist atmosphere of witch-hunting and political intolerance, he is paralyzed by uncontrollable terror. Yet at some point his hopelessness produces an inner freedom that gives the hunted man the strength to resist. Yampolsky's anatomy of fear evolves into a description of how to overcome fear.