| From the Publisher | 3 |
| On the World turned upside down of Leo Klejn | 5 |
| The author’s preface to the second edition | 11 |
| Ch. I. Danger | 19 |
| 1. Night call | 19 |
| 2. With a song through the life | 21 |
| 3. The gold-rush | 25 |
| 4. Varangian battle | 30 |
| 5. Musical story | 35 |
| 6. Theory with practice | 38 |
| 7. Theatre of absurdity | 48 |
| 8. The right of dead hand (mortmain) | 55 |
| 9. Life under the bell-glass | 61 |
| 10. The very competent | 67 |
| Ch. II. Justice and the two crosses | 72 |
| 1. The time stopped | 72 |
| 2. “Leave the hope…” | 74 |
| 3. From beggar’s bag and prison don’t swear off | 76 |
| 4. In tightness and nuisance | 78 |
| 5. Two crosses | 85 |
| 6. Unequal competition | 87 |
| 7. “Remember the baker!” | 89 |
| 8. Perestroyka, the time of reforms | 100 |
| Ch. III. Short work with the help of law | 111 |
| 1. Me, Distributor of Sugar | 111 |
| 2. The forgotten letter | 117 |
| 3. Personage behind stage | 120 |
| 4. Play with taking part… | 127 |
| 5. Themis with blindfolding band and without it | 130 |
| 6. Play at give-away | 140 |
| 7. Presumption of innocence and The “pornography of mind” | 148 |
| 8. Swindle of Themis | 153 |
| 9. The sentence that has run away | 161 |
| 10. You can complain please | 165 |
| 11. Zheglov’s syndrome | 167 |
| 12. Seven guarantees | 170 |
| Ch. IV. Seventeenth expedition | 180 |
| 1. Watch-towers in the steppe | 180 |
| 2. The other side of the Moon | 183 |
| 3. The severe zone, my own home | 185 |
| 4. Dual power | 196 |
| 5. The scale of terror | 199 |
| 6. Pedagogical tragedy | 202 |
| 7. Pedagogical parody: labour and collective | 204 |
| 8. Remaking, reformation, revolution | 210 |
| 9. The far near things | 217 |
| Ch. V. Under red sun | 231 |
| 1. Own view on the hell | 231 |
| 2. Case history | 244 |
| 3. Hell seen by the French | 249 |
| L.Samoilov (L.S.Klejn) Ethnography of a camp | 262 |
| V.R. Kabo Structure of a camp and archetypes of conscience | 287 |
| G.A.Levinton How “primordial” is the criminal subculture? | 297 |
| Ya.I.Gilinski Subculture behind bars | 306 |
| Discussion of L.S.Klejn with A.V.Yevglevsky | 313 |
| K.L.Bannikov Regimented communities. Anthropology of destructiveness | 319 |
| A.G.Kozintsev World upside down: marginalia on a book by Leo Samoilov [L.S.Klejn] | 337 |
| L.S.Klejn We, Cro-Magnon people | 344 |
| L.S.Klejn Culture, primordial primitivism and concentration camp | 356 |
| L.S.Klejn Cultural-historical process and theory of communication | 368 |
| The author’s preface to the first edition | 377 |
| The author’s preface to the Slovenian edition | 378 |
| Summaries | 382 |
| List of authors | 391 |
| Name index | 393 |
| Subject index | 398 |
