The communist party of the Soviet Union /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Schapiro, Leonard, 1908-1983
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Random House, 1960.
Series:Vintage Books : 745
Subjects:
Table of Contents:
  • The formative years
  • The "economist" controversy
  • The birth of Iskra and the Second Congress
  • Lenin against Iskra : the 1905 Revolution
  • Attempts at reunion
  • The First and Second Dumas
  • Towards the final split
  • Lenin overplays his hand
  • War and revolution
  • From Lenin to Stalin
  • The road to power
  • The Party in the Civil War
  • The Communist rule under threat
  • Lenin's conflict with his colleagues
  • Party composition and machinery : 1917-1922
  • Control over the Provinces : Army and legal machinery
  • Conflicts among the leaders : first phase
  • The defeat of Trotsky
  • Party composition : relations with the government
  • Army and security : industry and the peasants
  • Intellectual life : the Party at home and abroad
  • The Third Revolution
  • The defeat of Bukharin
  • The Third Revolution
  • Stalin's victory over the Party
  • The climax of the purge
  • Composition and structure : 1929-1941
  • The Party and the nation (the State : agriculture and industry : culture : doctrine : religion)
  • The non-Russian peoples : foreign relations
  • The War : Party control over the Army
  • The aftermath of the War (industry : agriculture : Party composition)
  • Intellectual tribulations. Stalin's death
  • Epilogue
  • Since Stalin died.