Sovietistan: travels in Turkmenistan, Kazakhstan, Tajikistan, Kyrgyzstan, and Uzbekistan

Turkmenistan: Map of Turkmenistan ; The underground people ; The marble city ; Dictatorism ; Desert flower ; The dictator's fall ; The final expedition ; The era of supreme happiness ; Borderland

Kazakhstan: Map of Kazakhstan ; An oasis of sushi and A.T.M.s ; On the tracks ; The sea that vanished ; The empire ; Kazakh polo ; Stalin's pawns ; The capital city ; The great experiment ; A weak heart ; Father of apples ; The tired activist ; A hard blow

Tajikistan: Map of Tajikistan ; Mercedes Benz capital ; Out of time ; The sad serving lady ; The faces of war ; The great game ; Map of Russian expansion in the nineteeth century ; The land at the foot of the sun ; Let's fight corruption together!

Kyrgyzstan: Map of Krygystan ; Don't cry, you are my wife now ; The eagle men ; The last Germans in rot-front ; Greek nuts ; Five days in June ; Silence in the waiting room ; Do you have any porn with you, miss? ; Uzbekistan: Map of Uzbekistan ; The art of keeping up appearances ; Such stuff as dreams are made of ; The museum in the desert ; The god of cotton ; In search of lost time ; Pearls of the silk road ; The end station

Afterword: The death of a dictator.