Twentieth century Russia / Donald W. Treadgold.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The Russian people -- Marxism comes to Russia -- The last tsar: reaction and the revolution of 1905 -- The "silver age" of the arts -- The February revolution -- The October revolution -- The Civil War (1917-1921) -- Lenin and the new economic policy -- Stalin, Trotsky, and Bukharin -- Finding a Soviet foreign policy (1917-1927) -- The revolution, the arts, and the church (1917-1927) -- Stalin and the first five-year plan (1928-1932) -- The consolidation of totalitarianism (1933-1941) -- Lenin, Stalin, and the non-Russians -- Stalin's diplomacy and world communism (1927-1935) --

Stalin's diplomacy and world communism (1936-1941) -- Stalin's cultural policy (1927-1945) -- The USSR in World War II: the military crisis (1941-1943) -- The USSR in World War II: political successes (1943-1945) -- Communist expansion in Europe (1945-1953) -- Communist expansion in Asia (1945-1956) -- Stalin's retrenchment (1945-1953) -- The rise and ascendancy of Khrushchev (1953-1964) -- The Brezhnev regime (1964-1982) -- The venture of Gorbachev -- The revolution of 1991 and after.