1.The first decade: the revolutionary aftermath (1917-1927): -- The Russian Revolution / Rosa Luxemburg -- The new theory / Karl Kautsky -- Russia's one day Parliament / Victor Chernov -- The ideology of "Sovietism" / Julius Martov -- Revolution and dictatorship / Bertrand Russell -- The Kronstadt Rebellion / Alexander Berkman -- Traveling salesmen of the revolution / Emma Goldman -- Vignettes of NEP / Victor Serge -- The cult of Lenin / Boris Souvarine -- The character and the fate of Leon Trotsky / Max Eastman -- Lenin's "testament" and a note of background -- What I believe / Joseph Stalin -- 2. The second decade: from dictatorship to totalitarian society (1928-1939): -- Slave labor and big business / Vladimir V. Tchernavin -- The press corps conceals a famine / Eugene Lyons -- Letters from Soviet timber camps / Out of the deep -- Death in the villages / W.H. Chamberlin -- Return from the USSR / Andre Gide -- Why Stalin triumphed / Leon Trotsky -- The Moscow trials and confessions / Louis Fischer -- Stalin appeases Hitler / Walter G. Krivitsky -- Communism and the American intellectuals / Granville Hicks -- 3. The third decade: the end product (1940-1950): -- The party line fails to hold / Ignazio Silone -- In prison / Jerzy Gliksman -- State capitalism or totalitarian state economy / Rudolf Hilferding -- Trade unions in Soviet Russia / Solomon M. Schwarz -- The real enemies of the Russian people / Kirill Alexeiev -- The Soviet Union: a new class society / Peter Meyer -- Eight fallacies of the Left Babbitt / Arthur Koestler -- Some wonders of the Russian tongue / Bertram D. Wolfe -- The "neighbors" in Canada / Igor Gouzenko -- The new religious policy / David J. Dallin -- Mea culpa / Sergei Eisenstein -- The destruction of science in the USSR / H.J. Muller -- Communist confessions / Luois Budenz -- The literature of disillusionment / Sidney Hook.