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Tables of Contents for The Soviet Experiment
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Utopia and Its Discontents
xiii
PART I: CRISIS AND REVOLUTION
1
120
1. The Imperial Legacy
3
32
Land and People
3
8
Autocracy, Nobility, Bureaucracy, and the Church
11
4
The Coming of Capitalism
15
2
The Russian Intelligentsia
17
2
Marx, Lenin, and the Case of Russia
19
4
The Final Crisis of Tsarism
23
6
The Tsar's Last War
29
4
Suggestions for Further Reading
33
2
2. The Double Revolution
35
21
The February Revolution and the End of Romanov Rule
35
4
Overlapping Revolutions, Dual Power
39
5
The Revolution Deepens
44
5
On the Road to October
49
3
The October Insurrection
52
2
Suggestions for Further Reading
54
2
3. Socialism and Civil War
56
40
On the Road from Democracy to Dictatorship
56
1
After October
57
3
Socialism: What's in a Name?
60
2
Building State Capitalism
62
2
Founding the New State: War, Peace, and Terror
64
8
Intervention and the Civil War in the South
72
4
Civil War in Siberia and the Volga
76
2
Russia on Its Own
78
4
Waiting for the International Revolution
82
2
Where Have All the Workers Gone?
84
4
The Peasant Revolution
88
5
Why the Bolsheviks Won the Civil War
93
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
94
2
4. Nationalism and Revolution
96
25
Transcaucasia
97
5
Ukrainians and Belorussians
102
3
Poland and the Russo-Polish War
105
2
The Baltic Peoples
107
3
The Finns
110
2
The Jews
112
3
Islam and the Peoples of the East
115
4
Nationalist and Class Struggles
119
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
120
1
PART II: RETREAT AND REBUILDING
121
94
5. The Evolution of the Dictatorship
123
17
Five Easy Steps
123
1
One Party Government
123
1
The Weakening of the Soviets
124
3
The Party State
127
3
Opposition within the Party
130
5
Resistance, Rebellion, and Mutiny
135
1
A Retreat to State Capitalism
136
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
139
1
6. Socialism in One Country
140
30
The Nationality Question
140
5
The General Secretary
145
2
Lenin's Mantle
147
2
Early Crises of the NEP Economy
149
2
Socialism in One Country
151
5
The Final Crisis of NEP
156
3
Retreat and Retrenchment
159
3
The Soviet Union Isolated
162
1
Continuing Revolution in Asia
163
1
The War Scare of 1927
164
1
Stalin and the Comintern
165
1
Balance and Power
166
1
Stalin's Path to Power
167
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
168
2
7. NEP Society
170
25
Cultures and Classes
170
2
Workers under State Capitalism
172
4
Peasant Russia
176
5
The Nepmen
181
2
The Red Army
183
1
The New Soviet Man and Woman
184
4
Religious Wars
188
2
Building Legitimate Authority
190
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
193
2
8. Culture Wars
195
20
Intelligentsia and Revolution
195
4
Fellow Travelers and Proletarian Writers
199
6
Film and Popular Culture
205
1
Soviet School Days
206
3
Cultural Revolution
209
4
Suggestions for Further Reading
213
2
PART III: STALINISM
215
170
9. The Stalin Revolution
217
16
Revolution from Above
217
1
War on the Peasants and the Final Opposition
218
3
Collectivization and Dekulakization
221
6
Famine in Ukraine
227
1
The Countryside after the Storm
228
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
231
2
10. Stalin's Industrial Revolution
233
19
Industrialization Stalin Style
233
2
Class War on the Specialists
235
2
Extension and Centralization
237
3
Stalin's Working Class
240
6
The New Class of Bosses
246
1
The Second Five Year Plan and Stakhanovism
247
2
Making the Socialist City
249
2
Suggestions for Further Reading
251
1
11. Building Stalinism
252
17
Politics and the Party
253
4
Retreat
257
4
The Great Purges
261
7
Suggestions for Further Reading
268
1
12. Culture and Society in the Socialist Motherland
269
22
Socialist Realism
269
5
Going to the Movies with Stalin
274
2
Disciplining the Intelligentsia
276
2
Women and the Family
278
2
Mind, Body, and Soul
280
4
Indestructible Union
284
6
Suggestions for Further Reading
290
1
13. Collective Security and the Coming of World War II
291
18
The Fascist Menace
291
3
The Popular Front and Collective Security
294
3
Communism versus Fascism
297
5
War in Europe
302
5
Suggestions for Further Reading
307
2
14. The Great Fatherland War
309
28
Invasion
309
5
From Blitzkrieg to War of Attrition
314
9
The Supreme Commander and the Road to Stalingrad
323
3
War and Diplomacy at Home and Abroad
326
3
Endgame
329
6
Suggestions for Further Reading
335
2
15. The Big Chill: The Cold War Begins
337
26
Historians Look at the Cold War
338
1
Diplomacy and the War Effort
339
4
Yalta and Its Aftermath
343
2
Atomic Diplomacy
345
1
A New World Order
346
1
The Left in Europe
347
2
The Soviets in Eastern Europe
349
2
Perceptions and Misperceptions
351
2
The Division of Europe
353
2
Poland
355
1
Czechoslovakia
356
1
Yugoslavia
357
1
The Finnish Exception
358
1
The German Question
359
2
Suggestions for Further Reading
361
2
16. Late Stalinism at Home and Abroad
363
22
From under the Rubble
363
6
Reconstructing Hearts and Minds
369
6
Stalinizing Eastern Europe
375
2
Cold War and Hot War
377
3
High Politics in the Kremlin Court
380
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
383
2
PART IV: REFORM AND STAGNATION
385
62
17. From Autocracy to Oligarchy
387
17
The Several Deaths of Stalin
387
7
The Man
394
1
The Soviets Enter the Nuclear Age
395
2
Peaceful Coexistence and Its Setbacks
397
2
Khrushchev in Crisis
399
4
Suggestions for Further Reading
403
1
18. Khrushchev and the Politics of Reform
404
17
The Thaw and Destalinization
404
3
Farm, Factory, and School
407
4
The Arms Race
411
1
Rift with China
411
2
Crises in the West
413
2
Kennedy and Khrushchev
415
1
Khrushchev's Gamble: The Cuban Missile Crisis
416
2
The Fall of Khrushchev
418
2
Suggestions for Further Reading
420
1
19. The Paradoxes of Brezhnev's Long Reign
421
26
The Leadership
421
2
Meeting the American Challenge: Vietnam
423
2
The Defeat of Reforms
425
2
Crushing the Prague Spring
427
2
Public Opinion and Dissent
429
5
Agriculture
434
1
Brezhnev Ascendant
435
1
Social Changes in the Era of Stagnation
436
6
Detente and the Arms Race
442
3
Two Crises: Afghanistan and Poland
445
1
Suggestions for Further Reading
446
1
PART V: REFORM AND REVOLUTION
447
60
20. Interregnum and the Road to Revolution
449
20
The Brief Reign of Iurii Andropov
449
1
The Briefer Reign of Konstantin Chernenko
450
1
The Road to Radical Reform
451
3
Glasnost and the Erosion of Authority
454
4
The New Thinking and the End of the Cold War
458
1
Politics in a New Idiom
459
3
The Awakening of Nations
462
3
From Reform to Revolution
465
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
468
1
21. The End of the Soviet Union
469
17
The Unraveling of the Empire at Home
470
1
Surrendering Stalin's Empire
471
2
Power to the People
473
4
The Final Crisis
477
4
Coup and Collapse
481
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
484
2
22. The Second Russian Republic and the Near Abroad
486
21
The Shock of Therapy
489
4
Constitutional Crisis
493
3
Russia, the Near Abroad, and Beyond
496
4
The War in Chechnya
500
2
Treading Water
502
3
Suggestions for Further Reading
505
2
Chronology
507
14
Index
521