Lars T. Lih
Biographical Note
Readership
Reading public: accessible to anyone interested in revolution, the Soviet experience, or individual leaders such as Lenin, Stalin, Trotsky. Academic: all levels, from undergraduate to tenured professors.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
Original Publication
Introduction: What Was Bolshevism?
Part 1 Overview
1 Ordinary Miracles: Lenin’s Call for Revolutionary Ambition
2 The Soviet Union and the Path to Communism
Part 2 Deferred Dreams: Against the Myth of ‘War Communism’ (1918–1921)
3 Tsiurupa’s White Beard
4 The Mystery of the ABC
5 Vlast from the Past: Stories Told by Bolsheviks
Part 3 Time of Troubles: Policies (1914–1921)
6 Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation: Ideals and Necessities
7 Bolshevik Razverstka and War Communism
8 Bolsheviks at Work: The Sowing Committees of 1920
Part 4 Time of Troubles: Outlook (1914–1921)
9 Bolshevism’s ‘Services to the State’: Three Voices
10 ‘Our Position Is in the Highest Degree Tragic’: Trotsky and Bolshevik ‘Euphoria’ in 1920
11 Zinoviev: Populist Leninist
Part 5 NEP (1921–1930)
12 Political Testament: Lenin, Bukharin and the Meaning of NEP
13 Bukharin on Bolshevik ‘Illusions’: ‘War Communism’ vs. NEP
Part 6 Stalin Era (1925–1953)
14 Stalin at Work: Introduction to Stalin’s Letters to Molotov
15 Bukharin’s Bolshevik Epic: The Prison Writings
16 Show Trials in the Stalin Era: On Stage and In Court
17 Vertigo: Masks and Lies in Stalin’s Russia
18 Who Is Stalin? What Is He?
Part 7 Perestroika (1984–1991)
19 Perestroika Looks Back
Bibliography
Index