Table of Contents

The Russian empire in 1913; war, evolution and revolutionaries; war communism; NEP; the great debate; the end of NEP; the Soviet great leap forward - collectivism, and industry, labour and finance; the great leap forward to war; the great patriotic war; recovery and reaction; the Krushchev era; Brezhnev - from stability to immobility; Gorbachev - from reform to disaster. Appendix: a note on growth rates.