Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Grappling with Social Realities: Moshe Lewin and the Making of Social History -- 2 Demons and Devil's Advocates: Problems in Historical Writing on the Stalin Era -- 3 Gorbachev's Socialism in Historical Perspective -- 4 The Tsar, the Emperor, the Leader: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Anatolii Rybakov's Stalin -- 5 The Omnipresent Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Politics and Social Relations in the 1930s -- 6 Soviet Peasants and Soviet Literature