Table of Contents

Preface to the Seventh Edition; Acknowledgments; PART I; THE FUNDAMENTALS OF RUSSIAN HISTORY; 1. Prologue; 2. The Autocratic State; 3. The Nineteenth-Century Crisis; 4. The People; 5. The Intelligentsia: Strangers in a Strange Land; PART II; THE END OF THE OLD ORDER; 6. Capitalism Comes to Russia; 7. The Revolutionaries Regroup; 8. The Final Years and Last Stand; PART III; LENIN'S RUSSIA; 9. 1917: Russia's Two Revolutions; 10. Into the Fire: The Civil War; 11. New Policies and New Problems; PART IV; STEELING THE REVOLUTION; 12. Bolshevism Without Lenin; 13. The Revolution From Above; 14. Trial by Fire: The Great Patriotic War; 15. Stalin's September Songs; PART V; THE SOCIALIST SUPERPOWER; 16. Khrushchev: Reforming the Revolution; 17. The Brezhnev Era: The Graying of the Revolution; 18. Gorbachev: From Restructuring to Deconstruction; PART VI; THE RUSSIAN FEDERATION; 19. The Russian Devolution; 20. Russia in the Twenty-first Century; Chronology; Selected Readings; Index; About the Author.