pt. 1. Shostakovich versus Volkov : whose Testimony? (1980) / Laurel E. Fay -- Volkov's Testimony reconsidered (2002) / Laurel E. Fay.

pt. 2. A side-by-side comparison of texts from Testimony with their original sources -- A pitiful fake : about the so-called "Memoirs" of D.D. Shostakovich (1979) : letter to the editor of Literaturnaia gazeta -- The bedbug (1979) : editorial in Literaturnaia gazeta, 14 November 1979, p. 8 -- The official dossier (1979) : news item in Literaturnaia gazeta -- Notes from the Soviet archives on Volkov's Testimony / Alla Bogdanova -- An episode in the life of a book : an interview with Henry Orlov (2000) / Ludmila Kovnatskaya -- An answer to those who still abuse Shostakovich (2000) / Irina Shostakovich -- On Solomon Volkov and Testimony (1988, 1997) / Boris Tishchenko -- The regime and vulgarity (1999) / Elena Basner -- Shostakovich's world is our world (1998) : Mstislav Rostropovich talks with Manashir Yakubov -- Shostakovich remembered : interviews with his Soviet colleagues (1992) / Irina Nikolskaya.

pt. 3. A link in the chain : reflections on Shostakovich and his times (1976) / Henry Orlov -- A perspective on Soviet musical culture during the lifetime of Shostakovich (1998) / Levon Hakobian -- The latest "new Shostakovich" : Allan Ho and Dmitri Feofanov's Shostakovich reconsidered (2000) / Levon Hakobian -- Dialogues about Shostakovich : from the history of Russian studies about Shostakovich (2002) / Ludmila Kovnatskaya.

pt. 4. Ian MacDonald's The new Shostakovich (1993) / Malcolm Hamrick Brown -- Elizabeth Wilson's Shostakovich : a life remembered (1996) / Malcolm Hamrick Brown -- A response to papers by Allan Ho and Dmitri Feofanov (1998) / David Fanning -- Whose Shostakovich? (2000) / Gerard McBurney -- The Shostakovich variations (2000) / Paul Mitchinson -- Shostakovich : a brief encounter and a present perspective (1996, 2002) / Malcolm Hamrick Brown -- Laurel Fay's Shostakovich : a life (2000) / Simon Morrison -- When serious music mattered : on Shostakovich and three recent books (2001) / Richard Taruskin.