Table of Contents

What is a Document? How to Read a Document Introduction 1. PRELUDE TO REVOLUTION A Land of Contrasts Revolutionary Politics The Revolution of 1905 The Eve of War and Revolution 2. 1917: THE YEAR OF REVOLUTION Society Becomes Radical The Bolshevik Rise to Power Views of the Revolution 3. THE CONSOLIDATION OF BOLSHEVIK RULE, 1918-1921 The Fate of the Royal Family Opposition and Criticism The Embrace of Dictatorship Peasant Resistance and the Crisis of Kronstadt 4. THE ROAD TO SOCIALISM The Transformation of Culture and Society Celebrating Revolution The Debate about NEP 5. STALIN'S REVOLUTION FROM ABOVE, 1928-1932 Beating Russia into the Twentieth Century The War against the Peasantry and Church The World of Five-Year Plans 6. PICTURE ESSAY: WOMEN'S LIBERATION IN THE SOVIET UNION 7. SOVIET SOCIETY AND CULTURE IN THE 1930s The Cult of Stalin The Revolution of Stalin 8. THE GREAT TERROR The Gulag Three Views of the Purges The Trial of Bukharin The Purges in Literature Epilogue Assessments of Stalin's Work Reflection on the Soviet Experience Timeline Further Reading Websites Text Credits Picture Credits Index Index

About the Author

Robert Weinberg is Professor of History at Swarthmore College. He is the author of The Revolution of 1905 in Odessa: Blood on the Steps (1993) and Stalin's Forgotten Zion: Birobidzhan and the Making of a Soviet Jewish Homeland (1998). Laurie Bernstein is Associate Professor of History and Director of Women's Studies at Rutgers University, Camden. She is the author of Sonia's Daughters: Prostitutes and Their Regulation in Imperial Russia (1995) and the editor of Mary Leder's My Life In Stalinist Russia: An American Woman Looks Back (2001).