| Acknowledgments | |
| Note on Transliteration | |
| Introduction | |
| Ch. 1 | From Moscow, Leningrad, and Ukraine to the Golden Valley | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | Colliding Beams and Open Traps | 43 |
| Ch. 3 | Siberia - Land of Eternally Green Tomatoes | 82 |
| Ch. 4 | Machines Can Think, but Can Humans? | 120 |
| Ch. 5 | Siberian Scientists and the Engineers of Nature | 163 |
| Ch. 6 | The Siberian Algorithm | 204 |
| Ch. 7 | Crackdown: The Communist Party and Academic Freedom in Akademgorodok | 263 |
| Epilogue | 305 |
| Notes | 311 |
| Index | 343 |