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| Introduction: Back to the Future | |
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| New to the Second Edition | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| Transliteration and Dating | |
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| Revolution and Civil War | |
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| The Revolutions of 1917 | |
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| Essays Ronald Grigor Suny, "Toward a Social History of the October Revolution" | |
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| Boris I. Kolonitskii, "Antibourgeois Propaganda and Anti-'Burzhui' Consciousness in 1917" | |
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| Documents Order No. 1. | |
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| A. F. Kerenskii's Statement in the Soviet of Workers' Deputies, March 2, 1917 | |
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| Iraklii Tsereteli's Speech on Returning from Siberian Exile, March 20, 1917 | |
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| V. I. Lenin, "The Tasks of the Proletariat in the Present Revolution ('April Theses')", April 7, 1917 | |
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| Tsereteli and Lenin's Exchange of Words During the First All-Russian Congress of Soviets of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies, June 3-4, 1917 | |
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| "Report of the Commissar of the Novoaleksandrovsk Uezd, Kovno Guberniia, " June 14, 1917 | |
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| V. I. Lenin, "Letter to Central Committee Members, " October 24, (November 6), 1917 | |
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| Civil War, Socialism, and Nationalism | |
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| Essays Peter Holquist, " 'Information Is the Alpha and Omega of Our Work': Bolshevik Surveillance in Its Pan-European Context" | |
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| Documents First Decrees of the New Soviet Government | |
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| The Dissolution of the Constituent Assembly | |
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| I. N. Steinberg, "The Cheka is Cheated" | |
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| Iulii Martov's Letter to A. N. Stein, June 16, 1918 | |
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| Lenin's Letter to V. V. Kuraev, E. B. Bosh, A. E. Minkin, August 11, 1918 | |
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| Lev Trotskii, "Report on the Red Army" to the First Congress of the Communist International, March 2, 1919 | |
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| Retreat and Rebuilding | |
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| Politics, Society, and Culture in the 1920s | |
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| Essays Terry Martin, "An Affirmative-Action Empire: The Emergence of the Soviet Nationalities Policy, 1919-1923" | |
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| Documents Aleksandra Kollontai, The Workers' Opposition, 1921 | |
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| Resolutions of the Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party, "On Party Unity" and "On the Syndicalist and Anarchist Deviation in Our Party," March 1921 | |
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| Lenin's Letter to Stalin, July 17, 1922 | |
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| V. I. Lenin, "Letter to the Congress" [Lenin's "Testament"], December 23-31, 1922 | |
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| Bukharin and Dzerzhinskii Disagree About the Nature of Revolutionary Government, December 1924 | |
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| Joseph Stalin, "The October Revolution and the Tactics of the Russian Communists, " December 17, 1924 | |
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| Lev Kamenev, "Speech to the Fourteenth Party Congress," December 1925 | |
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| The Code of Laws on Marriage and Divorce, the Family and Guardianship, November 19, 1926 | |
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| Kamenev-Bukharin Exchange, July 11, 1928 | |
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| Kliment Voroshilov's Letter to "Sergo" Orjonikidze, June 8, 1929 | |
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| Stalin's Letter to Molotov, Voroshilov, and Orjonikidze, September 30, 1929 | |
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| Lev Kopelev, from To Be Preserved Forever | |
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| Stalinism | |
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| The Stalin Revolution | |
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| Essays Sheila Fitzpatrick, "The Bolshevik Invention of Class: Marxist Theory and the Making of 'Class Consciousness' in Soviet Society" | |
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| James Von Geldern, "The Centre and the Periphery: Cultural and Social Geography in the Mass Culture of the 1930s" | |
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| Jochen Hellbeck, "The Urge to Struggle On," from Revolution on My Mind: Writing a Diary Under Stalin | |
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| Nicholas S. Timasheff, "World Revolution or Russia," from The Great Retreat | |
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| Vera S. Dunham, "The Big Deal" | |
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| Documents Joseph Stalin, "Dizzy with Success: Concerning Questions of the Collective Farm Movement, " March 2, 1930 | |
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| Lev Kopelev, "The Last Grain Collections 1933" | |
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| I. V. Stalin, "New Conditions--New Tasks in Economic Construction," Stalin's Speech to a Conference of Economic Managers, June 23, 1931 | |
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| Decree of the Council of People�s Commissars of the USSR and of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks), "On the Teaching of Civic History in the Schools of the USSR," May 16, 1934 | |
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| "For the Fatherland!" Editorial in Pravda, June 9, 1934 | |
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| Stalin's Letter to Kosior and Chubar in Kharkov, January 2, 1930 | |
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| Nadezhda Mandelstam, "A May Night, " excerpts from Hope Against Hope: A Memoir | |
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| Stalin to All Members of the Central Committee of the All-Russian Communist Party, March 31, 1937 | |
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| Stalin on the Arrests and Executions of Tukhachevskii, Iakir, Uborevich, and Others, June 11, 1937 | |
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| Beria to Stalin on Counter-revolutionary Organization in Ajaria, July 17, 1937 | |
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| Stalin to the Secretaries of Obkoms, Kraikoms, and Central Committees of the National Communist Parties, August 3, 1937 | |
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| Iu. Lvova, "Is Pashchitskii Present?" | |
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| Nikolai Bukharin's Letter to Stalin, December 10, 1937 | |
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| Mekhlis to Stalin and Ezhov, October 28, 1938 | |
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| Conference of Musicians at me Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party, Moscow, January 1948 | |
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| Report to Stalin on Dissolving Jewish Writers' Associations; and Stalin's Decision, February 8, 1949 | |
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| Nikita Khrushchev's Apology to Stalin, March 6, 1951 | |
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| Dangers and Opportunities: The Comintern, World War, and Cold War | |
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| Essays John Barber, "Popular Reactions in Moscow to the German Invasion of June 22, 1941" | |
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| David Holloway, "The Premises of Policy," from, Stalin and the Bomb | |
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| Yoram Gorlizki and Oleg Khlevniuk, "Stalin's Last Struggle," from Cold Peace | |
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| Documents "Theses on the National and Colonial Question" 1920 | |
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| "Theses on the Conditions for Admission" to the Communist International, 1920 | |
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| Stalin, "On the Tasks of Workers in the Economy," excerpts from his speech to the First All-Union Conference of Workers of Socialist Industry, February 4, 1931 | |
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| Stalin's Interview with Roy Howard of the Scripps-Howard Publications, 1936 | |
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| The Nazi-Soviet Pact, August 23, 1939 | |
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| Memorandum from Lavrenti Beria to Stalin, March 5, 1940 | |
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| Letter to Nikita Khrushchev from Aleksandr Shelepin and Draft Resolution to Destroy the Documents Concerning the Katyn Massacre, March 3, 1959 | |
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| Admiral N. G. Kuznetsov, "At Naval Headquarters" | |
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| Report from Beria to Stalin, July 4, 1944 | |
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| Record of Conversations between Comrade I. V. Stalin and Chairman of the Central People's Government of the People's Republic of China, Mao Zedong, December 16, 1949; January 22, 1950 | |
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| Reform and Stagnation | |
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| From Autocracy to Oligarchy | |
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| Essays Ted Hopf, "The Thuw at Home, 1953-58," from Reconstructing the Cold War | |
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| Deborah A. Field, "Irreconcilable Differences: Divorce and Conceptions of Private Life in the Khrushchev Era" | |
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| Documents Evgenii Evtushenko, from A Precocious Autobiography | |
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| Nikita Khrushchev's "Secret Speech" to the Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, February 25, 1956 | |
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| Joseph Starobin, "1956-A Memoir" | |
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| Report of Vladimir Semichastnyi, Chairman of the KGB, July 25, 1962 | |
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| Stagnation | |
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| Essays John Bushnell, "The 'New Soviet Man' Turns Pessimist" | |
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| James R. Millar, "The Little Deal: Brezhnev's Contribution To Acquisitive Socialism" | |
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| Lewis H. Siegelbaum, "Cars, Cars, and More Cars," from Cars for Comrades | |
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| Documents Fedor Burlatskii, "Brezhnev and the End of the Thaw: Reflections on the Nature of Political Leadership" | |
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| Report of Vladmir Semichastnyi to the Central Committee on Armenian Nationalists, February 7, 1966 | |
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| "Was the 1968 Prague Invasion Justified?" | |
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| "The Case of Boris Kochubiyevsky" | |
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| Letter from Vladimir Vysotskii to Petr Dimichev, April 17, 1973 | |
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| Reform and Revolution | |
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| The Road to Revolution | |
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| Essays Victoria E. Bonnell and Gregory Freidin, "Televorot: The Role of Television Coverage in Russia's August 1991 Coup" | |
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| Documents Mikhail Gorbachev, from Memoirs | |
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| Election of Mikhail Gorbachev as General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union | |
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| Nina Andreeva, "I Cannot Give Up My Principles" | |
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| The Rehabilitation of Bukharin | |
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| Boris Yeltsin Resigns from the Communist Party at the Twenty-Eighth Congress of the CPSU, July 1990 | |
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| Boris Yeltsin Calls for Gorbachev's Resignation, February 1991 | |
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| The August Coup | |
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| End of the USSR: Formation of the Commonwealth of Independent States | |
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| Mikhail Gorbachev, "Speech of Resignation," December 25 1991 | |
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| The Second Russian Republic and the "Near Abroad" | |
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| Essays Lilia Shevtsova, "Russia's Post-Communist Politics: Revolution or Continuity?" | |
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| Ronald Grigor Suny, "Constructing Primordialism: Old Histories for New Nations" | |
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| Documents Valentin Rasputin, "After Events, On the Eve of Events," January 1992 | |
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| Gavriil Popov, "August 1991" | |
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| Yeltsin Dissolves Parliament, Calls Elections Reply by Ruslan Khasbulatov, September 21, 1993 | |
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| Andranik Migranian, "Russia and the Near Abroad" | |
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| Boris Yeltsin, "Appeal to the Citizens of Russia" December 11, 1994 | |
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| The Russian State Duma Nullifies the Breakup of the Soviet Union | |
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| Principles for Determining the Foundations of Relations Between the Russian Federation and the Chechen Republic, August 31, 1996 | |
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| Boris Yeltsin, "Address to the Russian People," December 31, 1999 | |
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| Russia and the Former Soviet States in the Twenty-First Century | |
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| Essays Vadim Volkov, "Veblens Warning" and "The Politics of State Formation" | |
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| Andrei P. Tsygankov, "The World after September 11 and Great Power Pragmatism" | |
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| Documents Vladimir Putin, First Person | |
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| Vladimir Putin�s Prepared Remarks at the 43rd Munich Conference on Security Policy, February 10, 2007 | |
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| Conversation of Writer Grigorii Chkhartishvili (Boris Akunin) with Mikhail Khordorkovsky | |
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| Summing Up | |
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| Essays Z" [Martin Malia], "To the Stalin Mausoleum" | |
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| Alexander Dallin, "Causes of the Collapse of the USSR" | |
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| Stephen Holmes, "What Russia Teaches Us Now: How Weak States Threaten Freedom" | |