Russia at the time of Stalin's birth | p. 1 |
The Djugashvili family | p. 2 |
Imperial Russia | p. 3 |
...And back to the Djugashvili family | p. 8 |
Towards revolution | p. 10 |
The political scene - the struggle to win the support of the working classes | p. 11 |
Tsarist reaction to threat of revolution | p. 12 |
The war with Japan and the revolution of 1904 | p. 12 |
The consequences | p. 14 |
The period of failed Dumas | p. 15 |
...And what was Stalin up to during this period? | p. 16 |
Russia and the First World War | p. 18 |
Towards revolution | p. 19 |
Stalin's role in these events | p. 22 |
Civil war - the death of Lenin and the power struggle | p. 23 |
The situation at the end of 1917 | p. 24 |
The short-lived Constituent Assembly | p. 24 |
The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, 1918 | p. 26 |
The civil war | p. 27 |
'The Red Terror' | p. 29 |
The end of the Romanovs | p. 29 |
The Kronstadt rising, 1921 | p. 31 |
Lenin's New Economic Policy | p. 32 |
The power struggle - Trotsky versus Stalin | p. 34 |
Stalin's economic policies (1) - the collectivization of argiculture | p. 38 |
Introduction | p. 39 |
Collectivization - the theory | p. 40 |
Collectivization - the practice | p. 41 |
Just how successful was collectivization? | p. 45 |
Stalin's economic policies (2) - the Five-Year Plans | p. 48 |
Five-year planning | p. 49 |
The first Five-Year Plan 1928-33 | p. 51 |
The second Five-Year Plan, 1933-8 | p. 53 |
Stakhanovism | p. 53 |
The third Five-Year Plan, 1938-42 | p. 54 |
How successful was Stalin's economic revolution? | p. 55 |
From Marxism-Leninism to Stalinism | p. 57 |
Introduction | p. 58 |
Marxism - the Russian experience | p. 59 |
Stalinism | p. 60 |
Stalin's 'cult of personality' | p. 62 |
Stalin's New Constitution of 1936 | p. 63 |
Stalinism and religion | p. 66 |
Stalin's 'cultural revolution' | p. 68 |
Stalin's terror - a time of purges and show trials | p. 76 |
From bloodless revolution to terror and mass murder | p. 77 |
The first trials for industrial espionage | p. 78 |
The Riutin affair | p. 80 |
The assassination of Kirov | p. 81 |
Purges and show trials | p. 83 |
The 'Terror' - an overview | p. 90 |
The impact and repercussions of the purges and show trials | p. 91 |
A final score to settle - the murder of Leon Trotsky | p. 92 |
Everyday life in Stalin's Russia | p. 95 |
The family | p. 96 |
Living conditions | p. 96 |
Education | p. 98 |
Soviet youth movements | p. 101 |
The role of women in the Soviet Union | p. 102 |
Zhenotdel | p. 103 |
...And what of Stalin and his own family? | p. 104 |
Soviet foreign policy, 1918-40 | p. 106 |
Soviet foreign policy in the 1920s | p. 107 |
The Third International - Comintern | p. 108 |
The Treaty of Rapallo, 1922 | p. 109 |
Soviet opportunities in the Far East | p. 111 |
Challenges to Soviet diplomacy in the 1930s | p. 112 |
The Anti-Comintern Pact, 1936 | p. 114 |
The involvement of the Soviet Union in the Spanish Civil War | p. 115 |
The Soviet Union and the Czech crisis | p. 117 |
The German-Soviet Non-Agression Pact of August 1939 | p. 119 |
The German-Soviet invasion of Poland | p. 120 |
The Russo-Finnish war - 'The Winter War' of 1939-40 | p. 122 |
The Great Patriotic War, 1941-5 | p. 126 |
Why did Hitler invade the Soviet Union? | p. 127 |
Operation Barbarossa | p. 128 |
The German offensive - what went wrong? | p. 130 |
Leningrad - 'city of suffering and heroism' | p. 131 |
The Battle of Stalingrad - 'the Verdun of the Second World War' | p. 133 |
Kursk - 'the greatest tank battle in history' | p. 136 |
The Soviet Union under German occupation | p. 139 |
...Of collaboration and resistance | p. 141 |
The Soviet war economy | p. 142 |
The importance of foreign aid | p. 143 |
The Soviet Union's contribution to the final Allied victory | p. 144 |
Soviet foreign policy after 1945 - the Cold War | p. 147 |
Peace and the origins of the Cold War | p. 148 |
The Yalta and Potsdam conferences, 1945 | p. 149 |
The Nuremburg trials | p. 153 |
Soviet expansion in Eastern Europe | p. 154 |
The Greek civil war | p. 156 |
The start of the Cold War | p. 157 |
The Truman Doctrine and the Marshall Plan | p. 158 |
Cominform - Comintern under another name? | p. 160 |
The fate of Czechoslovakia | p. 160 |
The Berlin blockade, 1948-9 | p. 161 |
The Soviet Union becomes a nuclear power | p. 163 |
The atom spies | p. 163 |
The Soviet Union and the Korean War | p. 165 |
The final years of Stalin's rule | p. 166 |
Introduction | p. 167 |
Post-war reconstruction | p. 167 |
A return to Stalinist tyranny | p. 169 |
Years of 'hysterical isolationism' | p. 170 |
Zhdanov's purge of Soviet culture | p. 173 |
Conspiracies and a purge of the Party | p. 174 |
Again...what was happening to Stalin's own family? | p. 175 |
Stalin's seventieth birthday - the cult of personality gone beserk | p. 176 |
Stalinist anti-Semitism and the 'Doctors' Plot' | p. 177 |
The final days and death of Josif Stalin | p. 179 |
Stanlinist Russia - a postscript | p. 181 |
Stalin's death - the aftermath | p. 182 |
Khrushchev's speech at the Twentieth Party Conference | p. 182 |
De-Stalinization | p. 183 |
Stalin - some contrasting views | p. 185 |
Appendix 1 | p. 187 |
Appendix 2 | p. 188 |
Glossary | p. 191 |
Taking it further | p. 193 |
Index | p. 195 |
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