TABLE OF 1.) The Formation of the Bolshevik Party -- 2.) The Bolshevik Factions in the Revolution of 1917 -- 3.) The Brest-Litovsk Controversy and the Left Communist -- 4.) War Communism and the Centralization Controversies -- 5.) The Trade-Union Controversy -- 6.) The Crisis of 1921 -- 7.) Leninism Restored -- 8.) The Interregnum -- 9.) The New Course Controversy -- 10.) The Party After Lenin -- 11.) The Zinoview Opposition -- 12.) The United Opposition -- 13.) The Right Opposition -- 14.) Enemies of the People -- 15.) Why Opposition Failed ------ * A.) Chronology of Important Events in the History of the CPSU -- B.) Composition of the Chief Party Organs -- C.) The Graphic Analysis of Left and Right -- * BIBLIOGRAPHY -- * NOTES -- * INDEX
Robert Vincent Daniels studied at Harvard, received his AB degree in 1945, and PhD. degree in 1951. He has done research at the Russian Research Center at Harvard, taught Russian history at Indiana University, Bennington College, and the University of Vermont, and traveled in Russia.
Daniels published articles in the leading scholarly journals dealing with the history of Russian and communism. He was well known as the author of "The Conscience of the Revolution" and "The Nature of Communism."