Includes bibliographical references and index.

Stalin knows where he wants to get to--and is getting there -- 'Auto nomization versus federation' (1922-3) -- 'Cadres into heretics' -- The party and its apparaty -- Social flux and 'systemic paranoia' -- The i mpact of collectivization -- Between legality and bacchanalia -- How di d Stalin rule? -- The purges and their 'rationale' -- The scale of the purges -- The camps and the industrial empire of the NKVD -- Endgame -- An agrarian despotism? -- 'E pur, si muove!' -- The KGB and the politi cal opposition -- The avalanche of urbanization -- The 'administrators' : bruised but thriving -- Some leaders -- Kosygin and Andropov -- Leni n's time and worlds -- Backwardness and relapse -- Modernity with a twi st -- Urbanization : successes and failures -- Labour force and demogra phy : a conundrum -- The bureaucratic maze -- 'Telling the light from t he shade'? -- What was the Soviet system?

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