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Tables of Contents for Russia's Bitter Path to Modernity
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface
1
4
Introduction
5
14
Part One: The Background
19
62
``Old Regime'' Russia
21
10
Geopolitical Evolution of the Russian State
21
2
Paradoxes of Tsarist Russia
23
8
Political Culture
31
10
``Too Asiatic for the Europeans and too European for the Asians''
32
2
Egalitarianism and Communalism
34
2
``Orthodoxy---Autocracy---Nationality''
36
2
Russian Contemporary Political Culture
38
3
Soviet Ideology
41
9
Main Tenets of Classical Marxism
41
3
Marxism-Leninism
44
1
Marxism versus Human Nature
45
5
The Soviet Political System
50
11
Dictatorship of the Proletariat
50
1
``All Power to the Soviets!''
51
1
The Party of a New Type
52
2
The ``Party-State''
54
4
The Nomenklatura
58
3
Soviet Nationalities
61
11
The ``Red Federated Empire''
61
4
Sorting out the ``Nationalities Question''
65
7
Serfdom---Capitalism---Socialism
72
9
Russia's Early Experience with Capitalism
72
2
Tsarist Industrialization
74
2
The Command Economy
76
5
Part Two: The Socialist Experiment
81
86
The Beginnings of the Socialist Transformation
83
9
Consolidating One-Party Dictatorship
83
1
Civil War and War Communism: 1918--20
84
5
New Economic Policy: 1921--28
89
3
``Great Leap'' to Socialism
92
9
The Rise of Stalin
92
2
The Industrialization Debate: 1925--28
94
3
Collectivization of Agriculture
97
4
Stalinism
101
10
Industrialization
101
2
Five-Year Plans
103
3
Characteristics of Stalinism
106
5
From World War to Cold War
111
19
The Soviet-German Nonaggression Pact
111
4
The Great Patriotic War: 1941--45
115
4
Turning the Tide
119
3
Stalinism versus Fascism
122
3
The Onset of the Cold War
125
5
Khrushchev and De-Stalinization
130
13
Stalin's Legacy
130
3
The ``Secret'' Speech
133
5
``Khrushchevism''
138
5
Brezhnev's ``Mature'' Socialism
143
8
Advent of Brezhnev
143
2
Roots of Stagnation
145
2
The Soviet Decline
147
4
Cracks in the Soviet Monolith
151
16
Models of Soviet/Russian Power
151
3
The Rise of Cultural and Academic Pluralism
154
5
Dissidence
159
4
Totalitarianism with Corporatist and Pluralist Subsystems
163
4
Part Three: From Reform Socialism to Deformed Capitalism
167
110
The Command Economy in Crisis
169
10
Internal and External Pressures for Economic Reform
169
2
Gorbachev's Perestroika
171
3
Perestroika's Economic Strategies and Their Results
174
5
The Collapse of the Political System
179
11
``Democratization'' and ``New Thinking''
179
2
The Course of Political Reform
181
6
Results of Political Reform
187
3
Unraveling the Unitary State
190
8
The Rise of Popular and Nationalist Movements
190
4
Key Factors in the USSR's Collapse
194
4
Return to a Market Economy
198
12
``Shock Therapy'' and Its Consequences
198
5
Nomenklatura Privatization
203
2
``Crony Capitalism''
205
5
Handicaps of Russia's Capitalist Transformation
210
9
The Role of National Characteristics
210
4
The ``Survival'' Economy
214
5
The Yeltsin Era
219
18
``Democrator''
219
5
Parties and Elections
224
7
Yeltsin's Legacy
231
6
Russia in Search of an Identity
237
17
The Commonwealth of Independent States
237
2
Post-Soviet Geopolitics
239
4
Russian Federalism
243
3
The Chechen Problem
246
8
Prospects for the New Century
254
23
Who Is Putin?
254
5
Recentralizing the State
259
4
``Deprivatizing'' the State
263
6
``Controlled'' Democracy
269
8
Notes
277
8
Selected Bibliography of English-Language Sources
285
17
Selected Bibliography of Russian-Language Sources
302
9
Index
311