Table of Contents

New Currents In Old Russia * Introduction: Into Totalitarianism and Out of It * The Russian People * Marxism Comes to Russia * The Last Tsar: Reaction and the Revolution of 1905 * The Silver Age of the Arts * Growth of the Russian Economy * The Last Years of Tsarism * The February Revolution * The October Revolution * The Civil War (19171921) * Lenin and the New Economic Policy * Stalin, Trotsky, and Bukharin * Finding a Soviet Foreign Policy (19171927) * The Revolution, the Arts, and the Church (19171927) * Stalin and the First Five-Year Plan (19281932) * The Consolidation of Totalitarianism (19331941) * Lenin, Stalin, and the Non-Russians * Stalins Diplomacy and World Communism (19271935) * Stalins Diplomacy and and World Communism (19361941) * Stalins Cultural Policy (19271945) * The USSR in World War II: The Military Crisis (19411943) * The USSR in World War II: Political Successes (19431945) * Communist Expansion in Europe (19451953) * Communist Expansion in Asia (19451956) * Stalins Retrenchment (19451953) * The Rise and Ascendency of Khrushchv (19531964) * The Brezhnev Regime (19641982) * The Venture of Gorbachv * The Revolution of 1991 and After * The Revolution of 1991 and the New Russia

About the Author

Donald W. Treadgold was professor of Russian history in the History Department and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington. He was the author of Lenin and His Rivals, The Great Siberian Migration, The West in Russia and China (2 vols.), and A History of Christianity, a long-time editor of The Slavic Review, and editor and contributor to many books and journals on Russian history and other issues. Herbert J. Ellison is professor of Russian history in the History Department and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington. He is the author of History of Russia, and editor and contributor to Sino-Soviet Conflict in Global Perspective, Soviet Policy toward Western Europe, and Japan and the Pacific Quadrille. He has also written an extensive list of book chapters and articles on Russian history and foreign policy. He is currently writing a book on Russia in the Yeltsin era. Donald W. Treadgold was professor of Russian history in the History Department and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington. He was the author of Lenin and His Rivals, The Great Siberian Migration, The West in Russia and China (2 vols.), and A History of Christianity, a long-time editor of The Slavic Review, and editor and contributor to many books and journals on Russian history and other issues. Herbert J. Ellison is professor of Russian history in the History Department and the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies of the University of Washington. He is the author of History of Russia, and editor and contributor to Sino-Soviet Conflict in Global Perspective, Soviet Policy toward Western Europe, and Japan and the Pacific Quadrille. He has also written an extensive list of book chapters and articles on Russian history and foreign policy. He is currently writing a book on Russia in the Yeltsin era.