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Summary
Traces the development of communism in the former Soviet Union from Lenin to the advent of Gorbachev, arguing that communism's failure was not the result of faulty execution but of the idea that society could be improved using force.
Table of Contents
| Preface | |
| Introduction. The Historical Issues: A Time for Judgment | p. 1 |
| The Origins | |
| Why Socialism? | p. 21 |
| And Why in Russia First? | p. 51 |
| The Experiment | |
| The Road to October: 1917 | p. 81 |
| A Regime Is Born: War Communism, 1918-1921 | p. 109 |
| The Road Not Taken: NEP 1921-1928 | p. 139 |
| And They Built Socialism: 1929-1935 | p. 177 |
| Purge and Consolidation: 1935-1939 | p. 227 |
| The Empire | |
| The Fortunes of War: 1939-1953 | p. 273 |
| Reform Communism I: Khrushchev's Moscow Spring, 1953-1964 | p. 315 |
| And the Bill Came Due: Brezhnev and Nomenklatura Communism, 1964-1982 | p. 351 |
| The End | |
| Reform Communism II: Gorbachev and Perestroika, 1982-1988 | p. 405 |
| From Perestroika to Collapse: 1989-1991 | p. 445 |
| The Perverse Logic of Utopia | p. 491 |
| Epilogue. The Legacy | p. 505 |
| Notes and Sources | p. 521 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 555 |
| Index | p. 557 |
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