Rauch Georg von. A History of Soviet Russia

4th edition. — New York; Washington; London: Frederick A. Praeger Publishers, 1967. — xiii, 528 p.Where are the roots of Bolshevik Russia to be found? Is Russian Marxism a phenomenon that belongs to the great waves of Western influence or does it grow out of the Russian past? Was Stalin justified in ranking himself with Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great? Or was his a spiritually alien regime, as radical as that of the Tatar yoke, which extends its dominion beyond the political sphere into that of the mind? And may one hope that this time, too, the Russian and the other East European nations will be liberated — just as the Tatar rule was broken from within — by the Russian people?
The great Russian philosopher, Nikolai Berdyaev, views Bolshevism as a divine punishment, an inescapable fate for the Russian people which they must bear with dignity. However, he believes that Russia will experience a change of heart which will receive its decisive impetus from a purified Greek Orthodox Church.
This determinist view — that Bolshevism is the inescapable destiny of Russia — contains the great danger of accusing the Russian people of a predisposition for this way of life. There is no doubt that the history of the Soviet Union cannot be explained solely in terms of Marxist ideology, nor solely in terms of the Russian heritage. The Marxist ideology was exposed to strong influences from the Russian environment. The Stalin era in particular clearly demonstrated the interaction between doctrine and environment. But the belief that the country's development tends irrevocably towards Bolshevism is a misinterpretation of the forces evolving in the course of Russian history. Without going too far back into Russian history, the nineteenth century alone reveals the whole gamut of possibilities that were available for the solution of national and social problems.Prolog
The Awakening of Political Thought in Russia
The Populists
The Beginnings of Marxism in Russia
Lenin’s Rise
The First Attempt at Revolution
The Years of Reaction
The Problem of the Russian Center
The Russian Socialists and the WarThe Revolution
Czarist Russia and the War
The February Revolution
The Provisional Government and the Soviets
The Provisional Government and the Allies
The Kerensky Offensive
Lenin's Return
Bolshevik Tactics in the Spring of 1917
The July Uprising
The Kornilov Revolt
The Situation Abroad in the Fall of 1917
The October Revolution
The Establishment of the Bolshevik Regime
The Constituent Assembly
The Peace of Brest-Litovsk
The Civil War
Background Factors. The Nationahty PoHcy of the Soviets
The Beginnings of the Civil War-Spring and Summer, 1918
The Beginning of Allied Intervention and the Revolt of the Social Revolutionaries
Chicherin and Germany in the Summer of 1918
The Red Army and the Turning Point on the Volga
Soviet Russia and the Collapse of Germany
The Russian Policy of the Allies in the Winter of 1918/19
The Summer Offensive of the White Armies in 1919
The Baltic Front-Yudenich before Petrograd
Kolchak's and Denikin's Defeat
Wrangel's Insurrection and the War with Poland
The End of the Civil War
The Reconquest of the Caucasus and the Far East
The Era of the New Economic of Policy (NEP)
The Economic Position after the Civil War
The Kronstadt Rising
Lenin Changes his Course-March, 1921
The End of tlie Anti-Bolshevik Opposition Parties
The Problem of the Trade Unions and the Dictatorship of the Party
Bolshevik Federalism and the Founding of the Soviet Union
Family and School
The Persecution of the Church
«Proletarian Culture»
Outlines of Soviet Foreign Policy: Focus on Asia
The Founding of the Communist International: Hopes for World Revolution
Soviet Russia and the Western Powers — The Treaty of Rapallo
Stalin’s Rise and Struggle With the Opposition
Lenin’s Death and His Successors
The Triumvirate of 1923 — 1925 — The First Stage in the Fight against Trotsky
The «Permanent Revolution» and «Socialism in One Country»
Stalin between Right and Left Opposition (1925/27) — Trotsky’s Banishment
Collectivization and Industrialization — The First Five Year Plan (1928 — 1932)
Stalin Settles Accounts with the Right-wing Opposition (1928 — 1931)
Soviet Foreign Policy 1922 — 1932
Russian-German Relations after Rapallo
Conflicts with Great Britain
Soviet Russia and the Border States
Soviet East Asian Policy
Russia and the United States
The Non-Aggression Pacts of 1931 — 1932
Domestic Developments Between the Second Five Years Plan and the Outbreak of the War
The Economic and Social Situation after 1932
Ideological Changes during the Nineteen Thirties
The Stalin Constitution of 1936 — State and Party during the 1930's
The Great Purge (1935 — 1938)
From Purge to World War II
The Soviet Intelligentsia
The See-Saw Period of Soviet Foreign Policy
Popular Front and League of Nations
The Spanish Civil War and the Anti-Comintern Pact
The Soviet Union and the Czech Crises
Two Irons in thp Fire
Stalin's Pact with Hitler
The Division of Poland
German-Soviet Cooperation and the Comintern
The Winter Campaign Against Finland
The Allied Plans in the Near East
The Annexation of the Baltic States and Bessarabia
German-Russian Rivalry in the Balkans
Molotov's Visit to Berlin
The Barbarossa Plan
The Yugoslav Question. Matsuoka's Visit to Moscow
The Eve of War: Preventive War or Surprise Attack
The «Great Patriotic War» of the Soviet Union
Hitler's Surprise Attack on Russia
The German Policy in the Occupied Territories
Cooperation with the Allies
The Battle of Moscow
The Return to Tradition
Ostarbeiters, Partisans and the Prisoners of War
The Western Powers and the Problem of the Second Front
The Baltic and the Polish Questions
Churchill in Moscow
The Battles of the Summer of 1943: The Russian Volunteer Units
German-Russian Peace Feelers during 1943
The Crisis in the Relations of the Allies
The Teheran Conference
The Soviet Advance in the Winter of 1943 — 44 and Spring 1944
The Summer Campaign of 1944
Political Problems of the Year 1944
Vlasov between Hitler and Stalin
The Fall Campaign of 1944
The Russian Break-Through in January 1945
The Yalta Conference
The Occupation of Berlin and the End of the War in Europe
The Potsdam Conference
The Soviet Share in the War with Japan
The Soviet Union After the War
Foreign Relations after 1945 and the Growing International Tension
Economic Conditions after the War: The Fourth Five Year Plan
The Ideology and Cultural Policy of Soviet Russia
The Cold War with the West 1948 — 1952
The Nineteenth Party Congress and Stalin's Death
The Rise of Khrushchev
The Twentieth Congress of the Communist Party and After
Global Strategy and Cosmonautic
The Soviet Union Since 1962