List of Illustrations
Except those listed below, all images courtesy of David King Collection. Purchased from David King by Tate Archive in 2016.
Images 11, 28 and 33 in the public domain.
Image 31 by lafleur (originally posted to Flickr as soviet apartment) [CC BY 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; 32 by B.Enkhmandakh (Own work) [CC BY-SA 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; 34 from RIA Novosti archive, image #359290 / Yuryi Abramochkin / CC-BY-SA 3.0; 35 by Kletkin (Own work) [CC BY-SA 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; 36 by Kremlin.ru [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0) or CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; 37 by MEDEF (Flickr) [CC BY-SA 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons]; 38 by Raphaël Thiémard from Belgique (Berlin 1989, Fall der Mauer, Chute du mur) [CC BY-SA 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; 39 by David Broad [CC BY 3.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0)], via Wikimedia Commons; 41 from kremlin.ru, the official Website of the President of Russia.
Preface
1. Ted Grant.
Introduction
2. Women Workers, Take Up Your Rifles!
1. The Balance Sheet of October
3. Troops open fire on a demonstration during the ‘July Days’.
4. Baltic sailors checking documentation during the October Revolution.
5. Red Guards from the Putilov Steel Works.
6. Trotsky addresses the latest recruits to the newly formed Red Cavalry, 1918.
7. Lenin addressing the Sverdlov Square rally on 5th May 1920.
2. The Rise of Stalinism
8. Lenin and Trotsky on the second anniversary of the Revolution, Moscow.
9. Trotsky, Rykov and Jules Humbert-Droz in Red Square, Moscow, 1920.
10. Nikolai Bukharin.
11. Mikhail Tomsky.
12. The leaders of the Left Opposition in 1927.
13. Trotsky, Kamenev and Zinoviev with United Oppositionists.
3. From Five-Year Plans to the Purges
14. Peasants on a collective farm.
15. Workers demonstrate on a collective farm in 1929.
16. Bash the Kulak off the Kolkhoz.
17. Uralmashstroi in early 1933.
18. Long live Stalin’s breed of Stakhanovite heroes!
19. An NKVD Death Squad.
20. Lenin’s Central Committee.
4. The Nature of Stalinism
21. Leon Trotsky.
22. Under the Banner of Marx, Engels, Lenin and Stalin.
23. We are the Realisation of the Plan.
24. A 1931 poster by Gustav Klutsis, depicting the Politburo.
5. From War to De-Stalinisation
25. A cocktail party in Berlin in 1940.
26. Fighting in the Red October factory, Stalingrad, 1942.
27. Russian refugees fleeing the battle zone in the early days of the war.
28. A destroyed T-34-85 tank at the Móricz Zsigmond Square.
29. A party for the stars of the American spectacular, Holiday on Ice, 1959.
6. The Period of Stagnation
30. Lunchtime at a collective farm.
31. An apartment bloc in St Petersburg.
32. Leonid Brezhnev.
33. St Petersburg Psychiatric Hospital.
7. The Meaning of Perestroika
34. Mikhail Gorbachev.
35. An example of a Dacha in Sochi.
36. Boris Yeltsin.
8. From Foreign Policy to the National Question
37. Lech Wałesa.
38. Breaking the Berlin Wall.
Afterword: The Collapse of Stalinism by Alan Woods
39. Awaiting the counter-attack outside the White House in Moscow.
40. Gennady Zyuganov, leader of the Communist Party, with Putin.
41. Putin at a military parade in 2016.