Class Struggles in the USSR, First Period: 1917–1923

Preface 9
Introduction to the “first period” 57
Part 1. The October Revolution and the establishment of Soviet power 65
1. The interweaving of the revolutionary processes between February and October 1917 69
2. The dictatorship of the proletariat and class relations on the morrow of October 91
Part 2. Soviet power and the transformation of class relations between 1917 and 1921 133
1. The transformation of relations between the bourgeoisie and the proletariat under the dictatorship of the proletariat 135
2. The transformation of class relations in the towns 143
3. The transformation of class relations in the countryside 210
Part 3. The transformation of the principal instruments of the proletarian dictatorship 251
1. The transformation of the central organs of power and the administrative machinery of state 255
2. The changes in the Bolshevik Party, the guiding instrument of the proletarian dictatorship 292
3. The objective character of the process whereby the state machinery of the proletarian dictatorship acquired independence 329
Part 4. The ideological and political struggles inside the Bolshevik Party 345
1. The changes in the Bolshevik Party's relations with the masses 347
2. The ideological and political struggles in the Bolshevik Party before the civil war 368
3. The ideological and political struggles during “war communism” 380
4. The ideological and political struggles at the end of “war communism” and the beginning of the NEP 395
Part 5. The balance sheet of five years of revolution and the prospects on eve of Lenin’s death 437
1. The balance sheet drawn up by Lenin on the period of “war communism” 439
2. The mistakes of “war communism” analyzed 451
3. “State capitalism” 464
4. The changes in Lenin’s conception of the NEP 477
5. The tasks before the Bolshevik Party at the time of Lenin’s death 506
Bibliography 531
Index 539