Scenarios, statistics, and theories abound in U.S. discussions of the Soviet Union. But such abstract (and often abstracted) in- formation cannot fully convey what it is like to live in Soviet society. The Wilson Quarterly invited John Glad, a specialist in Slavic literature, to fill out the picture with illustrative excerpts from recent Russian fiction. Three of Professor Glad's choices- those Natalya Baranskaya, Arkady Arkanov, and Fyodor Ab- ramov-first appeared in Soviet publications. The current...