Introduction Bertram David Wolfe, 1896-1977 / by Lewis S. Feuer -- 1. Russia before the revolution Backwardness and industrialization in Russian history and thought -- he reign of Alexandra and Rasputin -- Gapon and Zubatov: an experiment in "police socialism" -- War comes to Russia -- Autocracy without an autocrat -- 2. Lenin and Leninism Lenin and Inessa Armand -- Krupskaia purges the people's libraries -- Soviet party histories from Lenin to Khrushchev -- A party of a new type -- The split in the socialist parties -- 2. Stalin and Stalinism Tito and Stalin -- The struggle for the Soviet succession -- A new look at the Soviet "new look" Stalin's ghost at the party congress -- The new gospel according to Krushchev -- 4. Totalitarianism: the longer view The durability of Soviet despotism: forty years of revolution -- Reflections on the future of the Soviet system -- A historian looks at the convergence theory -- The totalitarian potentials in the modern great-state society
