Lenin's Legacy

In: Hoover Institution Press Publication v.192

Abstract

Front Cover -- Title Page -- Half Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- Chart -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 -- The Russian Discontent 1 -- Chapter 2 -- Lenin's Party: Formation and Waiting -- The Marxist Vogue -- The Advent of Lenin -- Lenin's Movement -- Hope and Failure -- Disillusion and Decadence -- Lenin and the Minorities -- The Last Years of Waiting -- Chapter 3 -- The Conquest of Power -- The End of Tsarism -- Lenin Takes Charge and Fails -- The German Connection -- The Summer of Disruption -- The Coup -- The Party Becomes a Government -- Brest Litovsk -- Civil War -- Consolidation of the Party -- Chapter 4 -- The Liquidation of Dissent -- The End of Allies -- The End of Factions -- Lenin's Retreat -- Lenin's Last Years -- Lenin the Leader -- The Advent of Stalin -- Stalin Defeats Trotsky -- Stalin Crushes Left and Right -- Chapter 5 -- Stalinism in Power -- The Conquest of the Peasantry -- Industrialization -- The Great Purges -- The Stalinist System -- The Eve of the War -- The War -- High Stalinism -- The Finale -- Chapter 6 -- The Khrushchev Era -- The New Rulers -- Khrushchev, the Challenger -- The First Secretary versus the Prime Minister -- De-Stalinization: First Round -- The Defeat of the Old Guard -- Khrushchev Victorious -- The Troubled Vision -- The Slippage of Power -- Khrushchevism -- The Fall -- Chapter 7 -- Brezhnev and Conservative Communism -- The New Regime -- Leonid Ilich Brezhnev -- The Brezhnev Era: Consolidation -- Brezhnev in Command -- The Brezhnev Party -- Conclusion -- The Party Transformed and the Same -- Appendixes -- I. Figures on the Party -- 2. Women in the Party -- Notes -- Bibliographical Note -- Index -- Back Cover