Table of Contents
Introduction. Lessons of October: The Fate of Democracy and Socialism in the Age of Revolution and Counterrevolution 1
Part I Stalin and Stalinism
1 Making Sense of Stalin: His Biographers 19
2 Stalin and His Stalinism: Power and Authority in the Soviet Union, 1930-53 65
3 Rethinking Soviet Studies: Bringing the Non-Russians Back In 101
4 Living in the Soviet Century: Moshe Lewin, 1921-2010 131
5 Writing Russia: Sheila Fitzpatrick and the History of Stalinism 152
Part II Detours, Dead Ends, Ways Out
6 The Evil Empire Revisited: Stephen F. Cohen and the History and Politics of the USSR 181
7 Socialism, Post-Socialism, and the Appropriately Modern: Two Competing Paradigms 193
8 Gorbachev and History: Why the Soviet Union Fell Apart 229
Index 260