A Brief History of Communism : The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Empire (eBook)

Preface
Chapter 1 — How It All Began
     How Did the Communists Do It?
     Who Was Lenin?
     Russia in 1917
     The Democratic Revolution of Feb. 1917
     The Bolshevik Coup
Chapter  2 — The Chaos
     Who Was Going to Supply Food?
     Who Was Dzerzhinsky?
     Lenin and Germany
     Who Was Trotsky?
     The Red Terror
Chapter  3 — How Communists Won the Civil War
     The New Morality
     Today  Russia, Tomorrow  the  World
     Lenin’s New Economic Policy (NEP)
     Lenin’s Death
Chapter  4 — Who Was Stalin?
     Lenin’s Testament
     How Stalin Became a Dictator
Chapter  5 — What was Collectivization?
     Stalin’s Five-Year Plans
Chapter 6 — The Gulag
     The Terror Years  1937 – 1938
     After the Arrest
Chapter 7 — Who Killed Kirov?
     The Show Trials
     Why Were the Hardened Revolutionaries Admitting to Crimes Which They Could Not Possibly Have Committed?
     The Time of Yezhov
     The Madhouse
     Bringing the Army Under Control
     What Did Stalin Have to Say?
     The Spanish Civil War
Chapter 8 — Stalin  And  Hitler
Chapter 9 — World War Ii:  1941 – 1945
     German Atrocities
     Soviet Atrocities
     D-Day, The Yanks Are Coming
Chapter 10 — Stalin’s Rule  After  The  War
     Stalin’s Foreign Policy
     Soviet Economy After World War II
     Stalin’s Test of Loyalty
     Who Killed Stalin?
Chapter 11 — After Stalin  –  Khrushchev
     Who Was Khrushchev?
     The  Sausage  Communism
Chapter 12 — Brezhnev, Andropov, And Chernenko
     The Prague Spring
     Far East and Africa
     The  Cult  of Brezhnev
     Andropov and the KGB Take Over
     The Party Retakes Power
Chapter 13 — Who Was Gorbachev?
     What Were Glasnost and Perestroika?
     The Beginning of the End
     Who Was Yeltsin?
Chapter  14 — The End Of The Empire
Conclusion
Afterword
     Yeltsin:  A Trial  Democracy
     Putin: The End of Democracy
List of Major Names
Glossary
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
About The Author