VINCENT BARNETT Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of BirminghamBENNO ENNKER Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Universität Tübingen, GermanyISRAEL GETZLER Mayrock Center for Russian and East European Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, IsraelJOHN GOODING Department of History, University of EdinburghNEIL HARDING Department of Politics, University of Wales, SwanseaROBERT B. MCKEAN Department of History, University of StirlingROGER D. MARKWICK Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, AustraliaROSALIND MARSH School of Modern Languages and International Studies, University of BathALFRED WAYNE PENN Department of Political Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield, USAJAROSLAW PIEKALKIEWICZ Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USASUSAN E. REID Department of Historical and Critical Studies, University of Northumbria, Newcastle upon Tyne

• General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors Introduction; I.D. Thatcher PART I: CONCEPTUALISING REGIME AND SOCIETY Politics of Ideocracy: A New Framework for the Analysis of 'Totalitarianism'; J.Piekalkiewicz & A.W. Penn PART II: CONSTITUTIONALISM IN TWENTIETH-CENTURY RUSSIA Trotsky and the Duma: A Research Essay; I.D. Thatcher The Constitutional Monarchy in Russia, 1906-17; R.B. McKean Constitutional Government in Russia: Problems and Perspectives; J. Gooding PART III: LENIN AND THE BOLSHEVIKS: A CONSCIOUS DICTATORSHIP Lenin as Doctrinaire: Ripe and Unripe Time; N. Harding Lenin's Conception of Revolution as Civil War; I. Getzler The Origins and Intentions of the Lenin Cult; B. Ennker PART IV: INTELLECTUALS AND REGIME IN SOVIET AND POST-SOVIET RUSSIA Soviet Economists in Opposition and Overseas; V. Barnett De-Stalinisation in the Moscow Art Profession; S.E. Reid Precursor to Perestroika: The 'Democratic' Partkom, Institute of History, Soviet Academy of Sciences, 1965-68; R.D. Markwick History and Literature in Contemporary Russia; R. Marsh Index