Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Dissent and Revolution, 1917
• • 1: The structure of government
  • 2: Russia at war, 1917
  • 3: The February Revolution, 1917
  • 4: The Dual Authority and continued unrest
  • 5: The October Revolution, 1917
• Chapter 2: The Bolshevik Consolidation of Power, 1917–24
• • 1: The establishment of government and power
  • 2: Peace with Germany
  • 3: Civil war and foreign relations 1918–24
  • 4: War Communism and NEP, 1918–21
  • 5: Lenin, government and the Communist Party
• Chapter 3: Stalin’s Rise to Power, 1924–29
• • 1: Stalin’s record as a revolutionary before 1924
  • 2: The power struggle within the Communist Party
  • 3: ‘Permanent Revolution’ versus ‘Socialism in One Country’
  • 4: Stalin’s defeat of Trotsky and the Left
  • 5: Stalin’s defeat of the Right
• Chapter 4: Stalin’s Rule: Economy and Society, 1929–41
• • 1: Stalin’s economic aims after 1929
  • 2: Collectivisation and the war against the peasantry
  • 3: Industrialisation – the first three Five-Year Plans
  • 4: Key debate
• Chapter 5: Stalin’s Dictatorship, Power and Society, 1929–41
• • 1: The purges and the mechanisms of control
  • 2: Soviet totalitarianism and its impact on culture and society
  • 3: Stalin’s cult of personality
  • 4: Stalin’s foreign policy, 1933–41
• Chapter 6: The Great Patriotic War and High Stalinism
• • 1: Stalin as war leader
  • 2: The impact of the war on the Soviet Union
  • 3: High Stalinism in the USSR, 1945–53
  • 4: Stalin’s legacy in 1953
  • 5: Key debate
• Chapter 7: Khrushchev and De-Stalinisation, 1953–64
• • 1: Khrushchev’s rise to power, 1953–58
  • 2: De-Stalinisation and reform
  • 3: Khrushchev and the Soviet economy
  • 4: Khrushchev’s fall, 1964

About the Author

Michael Lynch is an Honorary Fellow in the School of Historical Studies at the University of Leicester, UK. His research interests are in modern European and Chinese history and he has authored and edited several titles in the Access to History series.