Includes bibliographical references (pages 275-288) and index.
Contents
Peace and quiet -- Strange stories -- Time of troubles -- The Bolshevik -- Waste -- A crack of the whip -- The master's thoughts -- The science of belief -- Promise deferred -- Getting the workers to work -- A temporary tsar -- Men of might and morals -- The bishop's move -- A hero appears -- Party man -- Opposition -- Is making money right? -- Memory and Mother Russia -- Rejoining the world.
Summary
Iscusses the struggle for power that lead to the rise of Mikhail Gorbachov and examines the Gorbachov's policies.