List of Illustrations
List of Maps
Acknowledgments
A Note on Conventions
Terms and Acronyms
Introduction to the Critical Edition
The Short History of the USSR
Introduction
I. Our Country in the Distant Past
II. The Kiev State
III. Eastern Europe under the Rule of the Mongol Conquerors
IV. The Rise of the Russian National State
V. The Expansion of the Russian State
VI. The Peasant Wars and Revolts of the Oppressed Peoples in the 17th Century
VII. Russia in the 18th Century. The Empire of Landlords and Merchants
VIII. Tsarist Russia—the Gendarme of Europe
IX. The Growth of Capitalism in Tsarist Russia
X. The First Bourgeois Revolution in Russia
XI. The Second Bourgeois Revolution in Russia
XII. The Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia
XIII. Military Intervention. The Civil War
XIV. The Turn to Peaceful Labour. Economic Restoration of the Country
XV. U.S.S.R. is the Land of Victorious Socialism
Chronological Table
Appendix: Further Revisions to Stalin's Usable Past, 1937–1955
Notes
Index