A History of the USSR

PREFACE 1
I. THE CAUSES OF THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
1. Bread and Butter in Tsarist Russia 3
2. Popular Struggle Against Tyranny 9
3. How Russia was Governed 12
4. No Cromwells in Russia 16
5. Who Should Lead the People? 20
6. Bolsheviks and Mensheviks 25
7. Three Revolutions, 1905-17 28
II. THE BREATHING SPACE
1. Brest-Litovsk 35
2. Crushing Armed Opposition and Sabotage 40
3. Building the New State 44
4. The Constituent Assembly 49
5. Subject Nations Revolt 54
6. Beginnings of the Socialist Order 58
7. Mass Initiative 65
8. The Plan for Reaching Socialism 68
9. “World Revolution” 72
10. The New Menace 75
III. INVASION AND CIVIL WAR
1. Open Hostilities 81
2. The Role of Allied Diplomacy 85
3. The White Regimes 92
4. The Grain Crusade 95
5. The Struggle with Counter-Revolution 98
6. White Terror and Red Terror 102
7. Socialist Legislation 106
8. The Civil War 109
9. Soviet Peace Proposals 122
10. War Communism 129
11. Steps to Socialism 134
12. The Freeing of Nationalities 139
IV. REBUILDING AND INDUSTRIALIZING
1. The New Economic Policy 144
2. The Great Famine 149
3. The Genoa Conference 151
4. Economic Difficulties and Political Disputes 156 
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5. External Difficulties, 1923-4 161
6. Problems of Construction 167
7. The Struggle for Industrialization 172
8. The Attack on Rural Capitalism 180
9. The Five Year Plan 185
V. FOUNDATIONS COMPLETED
1. A New Revolution 190
2. Problems of Expanding Industry 195
3. The Human Element 199
4. Wreckers 203
5. Alarums Without 206
6. Results of the Plan 216
7. War on the Horizon 218
8. The Basis of Soviet Confidence 227
VI. THE NEW SOCIETY
1. Coming-of-Age Year, 1935 235
2. The Stalin Constitution 243
3. The Struggle for Collective Security, 1936-7 254
4. The Year of Munich 262
VII. THE ROAD TO COMMUNISM 1939-41
1. The Third Five-Year Plan 275
2. The Moscow Negotiations of 1939 281
3. Soviet Neutrality, 1939-41 303
4. Preparations at Home 316
VIII. THE SOVIET UNION AT WAR
1. The Front 332
2. Behind the Front 334
3. Stalin’s Leadership 344
4. Foreign Relations, 1941-2 349
5. Stalingrad – The Turning-Point 363
6. Potsdam 381
EPILOGUE 390
[INDEX] 395