Introduction: The Problem and Its Setting Part 1: Leninist Theory and Practice before the Revolution 1. How an Ideology Emerged 2. Lenin's Plans for the New Society 3. The Party Faces the Dilemma of Means and Ends Part 2: The Dilemma of Authority From Lenin to Stalin 4. Victory Creates Dilemmas 5. Alternative Solutions 6. Political Dynamics: Who Shall Command? 7. The Transformation of the Rulers 8. The Mythology of Status and the New Bureaucracy 9. Revolution and World Politics Part 3: Today's Dilemma 10. New Wine in Old Bottles: The Stalinist Theory of Equality 11. The Organisations of Authority 12. The Bureaucratic State 13. The Industrial Order: Stalin and Adam Smith 14. The Class Struggle in a Socialist Society 15. Revolution from Above: The Transformation of the Peasantry 16. The Pattern of Soviet Foreign Policy 17. The Relations of Ideology and Foreign Policy 18. Conclusions and Implications
