Cover -- Half Title -- New Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- PART I The Ideology: From Marxism to Marxism-Leninism -- I Marxism and the Russian Revolution -- II Backwardness and Industrialization in RussianHistory and Thought -- III Das Kapital One Hundred Years Later -- PART II War as the Womb of Revolution -- I. War Comes to Russia -- II. War Comes to Russia-in-Exile -- III. Titans Locked in Combat -- IV. The Triple Power: The Role of the Barracksand the Street -- PART III Permanent Dictatorship and the Problem of Legitimacy -- I. Society and the State -- II. Lenin, the Architect of Twentieth-CenturyTotalitarianism -- III. The Durability of Despotism in the Soviet System -- IV. The Struggle for the Succession -- V. The Age of the Diminishing Dictators -- PART V Proletarian Dictatorship as a Higher Form of Democracy -- I. Prometheus Bound -- II. The Dark Side of the Moon -- III. The Forced Labor Reform after Stalin's Death -- IV. Elections under the Dictatorship -- PART V The Conditioning of Culture -- I. Operation Rewrite: The Agony of the SovietHistorian -- II. Party Histories from Lenin to Khrushchev -- III. Science Joins the Party -- IV. Culture and Communist Criticism -- V. Some Wonders of the Russian Tongue -- VI. The Great Blackout -- PART VI Problems of Foreign Policy -- I. Communist Ideology and Soviet Foreign Policy -- II. Poland: The Acid Test of a People's Peace -- III. The Convergence Theory in Historical Perspective -- INDEX