** Introduction

** The Three Conceptions of the Russian Revolution before 1917

** From 1905 to the First World War

** The Disasters of the War

** The February Revolution

** The Provisional Government

** The April Theses

** From July to October

** The October Revolution

** The Bolshevik Regime

** The Civil War and War Communism (1918-1921)

** The NEP (1921-1927)

** The Triumph of the Stalinist Bureaucracy

** The International Characteristics of Stalinism

** Conclusions

** Epilogue: The Communist Left Against Stalinism and Leninist Ideology