Cover
Half Title
Series
Title
Copyright
Contents
Foreword to the fourth edition
Map and list of figures
Chronology
Whoโs who
Part 1 The context
1 Introduction: the problem
Part 2 Analysis
2 Early years
3 The October revolution, state capitalism, war communism and the civil war, 1917โ21
War communism
4 The new economic policy (NEP), 1921โ28
Exit Trotsky and Zinoviev
The Urals-Siberian method
5 The thirties
The first FYP
Collectivisation
Famine
The second FYP
The murder of Kirov
Stalinism emerges
The Great Terror
The third FYP
Foreign policy
Culture
Society
6 The Great Fatherland War, 1941โ45
The economy
Culture
The party
The grand alliance
7 High Stalinism, 1945โ53
Eastern Europe
The Leningrad affair
Economic policy
Currency reform
Meeting Mao
The Korean war
Eastern Europe
The Cold war emerges
Science
Culture
Spies
The Doctorsโ plot and the Mingrelian affair
Part 3 Assessment
8 Stalin: Personality and power
Conclusion
9 The judgement
10 The legacy
Foreign and security policy
Empire
Putin
Part 4 Documents
Part 4. Documents
Document 1: The party
Document 2: The right deviation
Document 3: Dizzy with success
Document 4: Harsh realities
Document 5: The breakneck speed of industrialisation
Document 6: Famine and the nouveaux riches
Document 7: Fulfilment of the principal goals of the Stalinist Five-Year Plans, 1928โ50
Document 8: Mandelstamโs poem about Stalin (November 1933)
Document 9: (A) Interrogation techniques
Document 10: Bukharin
Document 11: Operational order No. 00447: 30 July 1937
Document 12: Molotov
Document 13: Stepan Podlubnyโs diary
Document 14: Stalin the miracle-worker
Document 15: The Stalin cult blossoms
Document 16: (A) A call to arms
Document 16: (B) Real burden of defence outlays, 1940โ44 (Billion roubles at 1937 factor cost)
Document 16: (C) Military losses in the Great Patriotic War (millions)
Document 17: (A) GDP per head of the USSR in international comparison, 1913โ40 ($ and 1980 prices)
Document 17: (B) Real GDP by sector of origin, 1937โ44 (Billion roubles and 1937 factor cost)
Document 18: (A) Prikaz (decree) of the USSR peopleโs commissariat of internal affairs issued in 1941
Document 18: (B) The USSR NKVD section for combatting banditry
Document 19: The cost of hostilities: A balance sheet
Document 20: Stalin the omniscient
Document 21: Stalin on red army discipline
Document 22: Stalin in 1948
Document 23: Soviet attitudes towards Yugoslav culture
Document 24: The importance of the cow
Document 25: A Jewish success story
Document 26: Youth, culture and health
Document 27: The reality of Soviet planning
Document 28: What is Stalinism?
Document 29: Khrushchevโs secret speech at the XXth Party Congress, 24โ25 February 1956
Glossary
Further reading
Bibliography
Index