Table of Contents

• Part 1: Narrative and Explanation
• Section 1: Russia in revolution 1905–17
• Tsarist Russia 1905–14
• The impact of the First World War and the collapse of Tsarism, 1914–17
• The problems of the Provisional Government
• The Bolshevik Revolution
• Section 2: The consolidation of Bolshevik power: Russia, 1918–29
• The consolidation of Bolshevik rule, 1918–24
• Economic policy—War Communism and the NEP
• Soviet society and culture under Lenin
• Safeguarding the Revolution: The struggle for power after Lenin's death
• Soviet foreign policy, 1917–28
• Part 2: Analysis and Interpretation
• Section 3: The Russian Revolution and the establishment of Bolshevik power
• Why did Tsarist regime collapse in 1917?
• How and why were the Bolsheviks able to seize power in 1917?
• What direction did Bolshevik ideology and tactics take between 1903 and 1917?
• To what extent did practical difficulties stop Lenin from implementing communist ideology?
• What was the nature of the Bolshevik state?
• How important was the role of Lenin?
• How and why did Stalin manage to secure power by 1929?
• Index.

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