The rise and fall of Communism in Russia / Robert V. Daniels.
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New Haven, CT :
Yale University Press,
c2007.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : revolution, modernization, socialism - baselines of modern Russian history
- Marx and the movement of history
- Fate and will in the Marxian vision
- Lenin as a Russian revolutionary
- The Bolsheviks and the intelligentsia
- Lenin's vision : the state and revolution
- Russian and revolution
- Revolution from the inside : Trotsky's conception of the process
- The Bolshevik gamble
- Left Communism in the revolutionary era
- Russian revolutionary extremism
- The militarization of socialism in Russia
- Bureaucratic advance and social lag in the revolution
- Socialist alternatives in the crisis of 1921
- The left opposition and the evolution of the Communist regime
- Trotsky on democracy and bureaucracy
- The left opposition as an alternative to Stalinism
- Foundations of Stalinism
- Stalinism as postrevolutionary dictatorship
- From distributive socialism to production socialism
- Stalin's cultural counterrevolution
- Stalinism and Russian political culture
- Stalinism ideology as false consciousness
- Was Stalin really a Communist?
- Khrushchev and the part apparatus
- Khrushchev and the intelligentsia
- The fall of Khrushchev and the advent of participatory bureaucracy
- The Central Committee as a bureaucratic elite
- The generational revolution
- Reform and the intelligentsia
- Gorbachev's opportunity
- Gorbachev and the reversal of history
- Soviet federalism and the breakup of the USSR
- The revolutionary process and the moderate revolutionary revival
- The Communist oppositions and post-Stalinist reform
- Past and present
- The grand surprise and Soviet studies.