The Cambridge history of Russia

• List of illustrations
• p. viii

• List of maps
• p. x

• Notes on contributors
• p. xi

• Acknowledgements
• p. xiv

• Note on transliteration and dates
• p. xv

• Chronology
• p. xvi

• List of abbreviations
• p. xxii

• Introduction
• p. 1

• 1
• Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the 'West' wrote its history of the USSR
• p. 5

• Part I
• Russia and the Soviet Union: The Story Through Time

• 2
• Russia's fin de siecle, 1900-1914
• p. 67

• 3
• The First World War, 1914-1918
• p. 94

• 4
• The revolutions of 1917-1918
• p. 114

• 5
• The Russian civil war, 1917-1922
• p. 140

• 6
• Building a new state and society: NEP, 1921-1928
• p. 168

• 7
• Stalinism, 1928-1940
• p. 192

• 8
• Patriotic war, 1941-1945
• p. 217

• 9
• Stalin and his circle
• p. 243

• 10
• The Khrushchev period, 1953-1964
• p. 268

• 11
• The Brezhnev era
• p. 292

• 12
• The Gorbachev era
• p. 316

• 13
• The Russian Federation
• p. 352

• Part II
• Russia and the Soviet Union: Themes and Trends

• 14
• Economic and demographic change: Russia's age of economic extremes
• p. 383

• 15
• Transforming peasants in the twentieth century: dilemmas of Russian, Soviet and post-Soviet development
• p. 411

• 16
• Workers and industrialisation
• p. 440

• 17
• Women and the state
• p. 468

• 18
• Non-Russians in the Soviet Union and after
• p. 495

• 19
• The western republics: Ukraine, Belarus, Moldova and the Baltics
• p. 522

• 20
• Science, technology and modernity
• p. 549

• 21
• Culture, 1900-1945
• p. 579

• 22
• The politics of culture, 1945-2000
• p. 605

• 23
• Comintern and Soviet foreign policy, 1919-1941
• p. 636

• 24
• Moscow's foreign policy, 1945-2000: identities, institutions and interests
• p. 662

• 25
• The Soviet Union and the road to communism
• p. 706

• Bibliography
• p. 732

• Index
• p. 793