Table of Contents

Introduction, Chronology 1883–1991, 1. Why do historical interpretations differ?, 2. Overview: the Bolshevik party and regime, 1903–24, 3. The origins and growth of Marxism in Russia to 1905, 4. The Bolsheviks between 1903 and March 1917, 5. The Bolsheviks and the October Revolution, 6. The Bolsheviks and the Russian Civil War, 1918–22, 7. The Bolshevik regime, 1918–24, 8. Which Lenin?, Notes, Select bibliography, Index