CONTENTS

Preface

Introduction

PART ONE    A REGIME AND ITS PSYCHE

INTRODUCTION

1STALIN KNOWS WHERE HE WANTS TO GET TO – AND IS GETTING THERE

2‘AUTONOMIZATION VERSUS FEDERATION’ (1922–3)

3‘CADRES INTO HERETICS’

4THE PARTY AND ITS APPARATY

5SOCIAL FLUX AND ‘SYSTEMIC PARANOIA’

6THE IMPACT OF COLLECTIVIZATION

7BETWEEN LEGALITY AND BACCHANALIA

8HOW DID STALIN RULE?

9THE PURGES AND THEIR ‘RATIONALE’

10THE SCALE OF THE PURGES

11THE CAMPS AND THE INDUSTRIAL EMPIRE OF THE NKVD

12ENDGAME

13AN AGRARIAN DESPOTISM?

PART TWO    THE 1960S: FROM A NEW MODEL TO A NEW IMPASSE

14‘E PUR, SI MUOVE!’

15THE KGB AND THE POLITICAL OPPOSITION

16THE AVALANCHE OF URBANIZATION

17THE ‘ADMINISTRATORS’: BRUISED BUT THRIVING

18SOME LEADERS

19KOSYGIN AND ANDROPOV

PART THREE    THE SOVIET CENTURY: RUSSIA IN HISTORICAL CONTEXT

20LENIN’S TIME AND WORLDS

21BACKWARDNESS AND RELAPSE

22MODERNITY WITH A TWIST

23URBANIZATION: SUCCESSES AND FAILURES

24LABOUR FORCE AND DEMOGRAPHY: A CONUNDRUM

25THE BUREAUCRATIC MAZE

26‘TELLING THE LIGHT FROM THE SHADE’?

27WHAT WAS THE SOVIET SYSTEM?

Notes

Glossary of Russian Terms

Appendices

Note on Sources and References

Index