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Tables of Contents for The Soviet Colossus
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Fifth Edition
xi
 
PART I THE FUNDAMENTALS OF RUSSIAN HISTORY
Prologue
3
5
The Autocratic State
8
11
The Nineteenth-Century Crisis
19
7
The People
26
6
The Intelligentsia: Strangers in a Strange Land
32
15
PART II THE END OF THE OLD ORDER
Capitalism Comes to Russia
47
7
The Revolutionaries Regroup
54
17
The Final Years and Last Stand
71
16
PART III LENIN'S RUSSIA
1917: Russia's Two Revolutions
87
21
Into the Fire: The Civil War
108
27
New Policies and New Problems
135
30
PART IV STEELING THE REVOLUTION
Bolshevism Without Lenin
165
23
The Revolution From Above
188
38
Trial by Fire: The Great Patriotic War
226
15
Stalin's September Songs
241
20
PART V THE SOCIALIST SUPERPOWER
Khrushchev: Reforming the Revolution
261
28
The Brezhnev Era: The Graying of the Revolution
289
44
PART VI FAILED COMMUNISM AND FLAWED CAPITALISM
Gorbachev: From Restructuring to Deconstruction
333
52
The Russian Devolution
385
36
Chronology
421
12
Selected Readings
433
6
Index
439
27
About the Author
466