Land and people -- The intelligentsia and the West -- Russia the modernizing old regime -- The empire goes to war -- 1917 -- The civil war and war communism, 1918-1921 -- From Lenin to Stalin, 1921-1928 -- National Bolshevism in world affairs -- Collectivization of agriculture and five-year plan, 1929-1933 -- The Great Purge and the path to war -- The fate of the revolution -- The Hitler-Stalin pact, 1939-1941 -- World War II : Russia versus Germany -- A debate: Was Stalin necessary?
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