The relationship between society and the regime has been central to much recent research in the field of Soviet history. In this book, an international team of scholars investigates this theme in the revolutionary period, and in the Stalin years from the 1920s to the 1940s, with an additional section on the Bolshevik's relations with the outside world via the Communist International based in Moscow. The use of fresh archival materials provides challenging new interpretations and insights.

RICHARD H. BAYERLEIN Lecturer in the Department of Political Science, University of Cologne and Visiting Professor, University of Guadalajara and University of Bourgogne, Dijon MARY BUCKLEY Reader in Politics at the University of Edinburgh MARY SCHAEFFER CONROY Professor of Russian at the University of Colorado at Denver IRINA DAVIDIAN Research Fellow at the Institute of National Problems in Education, Moscow MIKHAIL M. GORINOV Research Fellow at the Moscow Union of Archives GABRIELE GORZKA Managing Director of the East-West Science Centre and Lecturer in East European History at Kassel University, Germany PETER HUBER Lecturer at the University of Basel JOHN KEEP Professor of Russian History at the University of Toronto (1970-88) ROBERT MAIER Research Fellow at the Brunswick Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook Research in Germany ALEXANDER RABINOWITCH Professor of History at Indiana University DONALD J. RALEIGH Professor of History at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill SUSAN Z. RUPP Assistant Professor of Russian History at Wake Forest University VIKTORIIA TIAZHEL'NIKOVA Research Fellow at the Moscow Union of Archives ALEKSANDR VATLIN Senior Lecturer in Modern History at Moscow State University and Vice-President of the Russian Association for Soviet Studies

General Editor's Introduction Notes on Contributors Preface Glossary of Terms and Abbreviations Politics and Society under the Bolsheviks: An Introduction; K.McDermott & J.Morison The Russian Pharmaceutical Industry in the Late Imperial-Early Soviet Period; M.S.Conroy Early Disenchantment with Bolshevik Rule: New Data from the Archives of the Extraordinary Assembly of Delegates from Petrograd Factories; A.Rabinowitch Out of the Dustbin of History: New Data on the Revolutionary Communist Party from the Saratov and Central Communist Party Archives; D.J.Raleigh A House Divided: Civil War Politics in Siberia, 1918; S.Z.Rupp Mass Political Consciousness in Soviet Russia in the 1920s; I.Davidian Suicide among Representatives of Active Social Groups in the USSR in the 1920s; V.Tiazhel'nikova Stalinism in Post-Soviet Historical Writing; J.Kemp Work and Leisure among Textile Workers in Soviet Russia: Iaroslavl' in the 1930s; G.Gorzka Categorising Resistance to Rural Stakhanovism; M.Buckley Sovety Zhen as a Surrogate Trade Union: Comments on the History of the Movement of Activist Women in the 1930s; R.Maier Dynamics of the Mood of Muscovites, 22 June 1941-May 1942; M.M.Gorinov The Theory and Practice of World Revolution in the Perception of Inter-war Europe: An Attempt at a Historical Generalisation; A.Vatlin The Abortive 'German October', 1923: New Light on the Revolutionary Plans of the Russian Communist Party, the Comintern and the German Communist Party; B.H.Bayerlein The Central Apparatus of the Comintern: New Statistical Evidence; P.Huber Comintern, Stalinism and Totalitarianism; K.McDermott Index