Cover; Half Title; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; Foreword to the fourth edition; Map and list of figures; Chronology; Who's 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, 1917-21; War communism; 4 The new economic policy (NEP), 1921-28; 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, 1941-45The economy; Culture; The party; The grand alliance; 7 High Stalinism, 1945-53; Eastern Europe; The Leningrad affair; Economic policy; Currency reform; Meeting Mao; The Korean war; Eastern Europe; The Cold war emerges; Science; Culture; Spies; The Doctors' 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 16: (B) Real burden of defence outlays, 1940-44 (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, 1913-40 (and 1980 prices); Document 17: (B) Real GDP by sector of origin, 1937-44 (Billion roubles and 1937 factor cost); Document 18: (A) Prikaz (decree) of the USSR people's 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 omniscientDocument 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: Khrushchev's secret speech at the XXth Party Congress, 24-25 February 1956; Glossary; Further reading; Bibliography; Index
Document 4: Harsh realitiesDocument 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, 1928-50; Document 8: Mandelstam's 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 Podlubny's diary; Document 14: Stalin the miracle-worker; Document 15: The Stalin cult blossoms; Document 16: (A) A call to arms