Introduction: Into Totalitarianism and Out of It -- 1. The Russian People -- 2. Marxism Comes to Russia -- 3. The Last Tsar: Reaction and the Revolution of 1905 -- 4. The "Silver Age" of the Arts -- 5. Growth of the Russian Economy -- 6. The Last Years of Tsarism -- 7. The February Revolution -- 8. The October Revolution -- 9. The Civil War (1917-1921) -- 10. Lenin and the New Economic Policy -- 11. Stalin, Trotsky, and Bukharin -- 12. Finding a Soviet Foreign Policy (1917-1927) -- 13. The Revolution, the Arts, and the Church (1917-1927) -- 14. Stalin and the First Five-Year Plan (1928-1932) -- 15. The Consolidation of Totalitarianism (1933-1941) -- 16. Lenin, Stalin, and the Non-Russians -- 17. Stalin's Diplomacy and World Communism (1927-1935) -- 18. Stalin's Diplomacy and World Communism (1936-1941) -- 19. Stalin's Cultural Policy (1927-1945) -- 20. The USSR in World War II: The Military Crisis (1941-1943) -- 21. The USSR in World War II: Political Successes (1943-1945) -- 22. Communist Expansion in Europe (1945-1953) -- 23. Communist Expansion in Asia (1945-1956) -- 24. Stalin's Retrenchment (1945-1953) -- 25. The Rise and Ascendancy of Khrushchev (1953-1964) -- 26. The Brezhnev Regime (1964-1982) -- 27. The Venture of Gorbachev -- 28. The Revolution of 1991 and After.