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Cover -- Contents -- Editors' Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Russia and Revolution -- The Russia question -- On the eve -- The call of revolution and its critics -- 2 Bolshevism and its Critics -- Marxism and Bolshevism -- The 'freest country in the world' -- The Bolshevik revolution -- Bolshevik experiments -- Bolshevik alternatives -- The politics of utopia - a negative transcendence -- Bolshevism: the Russifi cation of Marxism? -- 3 Stalinism and Communist Reform -- Stalin's revolution from above -- Russia and war -- The limits of reform communism -- Nation and adaptation -- Stability and order in the communist revolution -- 4 The Great Retreat -- Modernisation and mis-modernisation -- The party-state and citizenship -- Resistance and dissent -- Reform communism and dissolutio -- Disintegration of the state -- The end of communism in Russia -- 5 Communism in Russia -- The great experiment -- Anticipating and interpreting the end -- Russia and communism: an internal clash of civilisations -- Russia after communism -- References -- Index.