This book contains fresh approaches to the interaction between regime and society in twentieth-century Russia. It offers new answers to familiar questions: * How useful is 'totalitarianism' as a model to categorise authoritarian regimes? * What chances existed for tsarism to establish itself as a constitutional monarchy? * Were Trotsky and Lenin dictators in waiting? * How did the Bolsheviks make the Lenin cult? * What opposition did intellectuals offer in the Soviet regime? * What is the nature of contemporary Russian constitutionalism? It is required reading for historians, political scientists, sociologists and everyone interested in modern Russia.

VINCENT BARNETT Centre for Russian and East European Studies, University of Birmingham
BENNO ENNKER Institut für Osteuropäische Geschichte und Landeskunde, Universität Tübingen, Germany
ISRAEL GETZLER Mayrock Center for Russian and East European Research, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
JOHN GOODING Department of History, University of Edinburgh
NEIL HARDING Department of Politics, University of Wales, Swansea
ROBERT B. MCKEAN Department of History, University of Stirling
ROGER D. MARKWICK Department of Government and Public Administration, University of Sydney, Australia
ROSALIND MARSH School of Modern Languages and International Studies, University of Bath
ALFRED WAYNE PENN Department of Political Studies, University of Illinois at Springfield, USA
JAROSLAW PIEKALKIEWICZ Department of Political Science, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, USA
SUSAN 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