PART 1: THE POLITICS OF SOVIET HISTORY - The Onslaught on Leninism September 1988 to July 1990 - The XXVIII Party Congress July 1990 - The Leninist Counter-Offensive August 1990-July 1991 - The Drive against Communism 1991-2: the Aftermath of the August 1991 Coup - The Mental Revolution after the First Decade - PART 2: THE BATTLE FOR THE ARCHIVES - Before Perestroika - The Opening of the Archives - Persistent Problems - PART 3: THE NEW SOVIET HISTORY - Teaching about the Soviet Past - Lenin and the Civil War - Lenin Stalin and the New Economic Policy - Stalin and his Entourage - The Secret Police and the Camps - Opposition to Stalinism - Science and Stalinism: the Example of Physics - Soviet Society in the Stalin Era - Stalin's Entourage at the End - The Future of the Soviet Past - Appendix Table: Print-runs of Newspapers and Periodicals 1985-1996 - Appendix: Major Events in Russian and Soviet History - Glossary - Notes and References - Index. Language: English