Cover -- Half title -- Title -- Copyright page -- Original title -- Original copyright page -- Dedication page -- Introduction -- Author's Preface -- Contents -- Prologue -- CHAPTER 1 The War and The February Revolution -- CHAPTER 2 The Debate Over Peace Aims, March-April 1917 -- CHAPTER 3 The Disintegration of the February Revolution -- CHAPTER 4 The October Revolution -- CHAPTER 5 Point of No Return -- CHAPTER 6 From Brest-Litovsk to Civil War -- CHAPTER 7 The Civil War -- CHAPTER 8 The Revolt Against War Communism -- CHAPTER 9 Lenin and Marxism -- CHAPTER 10 Lenin and the Weimar Republic -- CHAPTER 11 The Comintern -- CHAPTER 12 Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin -- CHAPTER 13 Soviet ''Normalcy": Russia in the Mid-Twenties -- CHAPTER 14 The Birth of the General Line -- CHAPTER 15 The Great Leap -- CHAPTER 16 The Changing International Situation -- CHAPTER 17 The Totalitarian Spiral -- CHAPTER 18 The Road to the Second World War -- Epilogue: The War and After -- Index