I: The origins -- Why Socialism? -- Any why in Russia first? -- II: The experiment -- The road to October: 1917 -- A regime is born: war communism, 1918-1921 -- The road not take: NEP, 1921-1928 -- And they built socialism: 1929-1935 -- Purge and consolidation: 1935-1939 -- III: The empire -- The fortunes of war: 1939-1953 -- Reform communism I: Khrushchev's Moscow spring, 1953-1964 -- And the bill came due: Brezhnev and Nomenklatura communism, 1964-1982 -- IV: The end -- Reform communism II: Gorbachev and Perestroika, 1982-1988 -- From Perestroika to collapse: 1989-1991 -- The perverse logic of Utopia -- The legacy.
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