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Stalin's Usable Past

A Critical Edition of the 1937 Short History of the USSR

Edited by David Brandenberger

List of Illustrations

List of Maps

Acknowledgments

A Note on Conventions

Terms and Acronyms

Introduction to the Critical Edition

The Short History of the USSR

Introduction

I. Our Country in the Distant Past

II. The Kiev State

III. Eastern Europe under the Rule of the Mongol Conquerors

IV. The Rise of the Russian National State

V. The Expansion of the Russian State

VI. The Peasant Wars and Revolts of the Oppressed Peoples in the 17th Century

VII. Russia in the 18th Century. The Empire of Landlords and Merchants

VIII. Tsarist Russia—the Gendarme of Europe

IX. The Growth of Capitalism in Tsarist Russia

X. The First Bourgeois Revolution in Russia

XI. The Second Bourgeois Revolution in Russia

XII. The Great October Socialist Revolution in Russia

XIII. Military Intervention. The Civil War

XIV. The Turn to Peaceful Labour. Economic Restoration of the Country

XV. U.S.S.R. is the Land of Victorious Socialism

Chronological Table

Appendix: Further Revisions to Stalin's Usable Past, 1937–1955

Notes

Index