Barbara C. Allen, Ph.D.(2001), Indiana University Bloomington, is Associate Professor of History at La Salle University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. She is the author of Alexander Shlyapnikov, 1885-1937: Life of an Old Bolshevik (Brill 2015 and Haymarket Books 2016).

List of illustrations
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations and Acronyms
Introduction

1. From the Old Belief to Socialism
2. Emigration and the Revolutionary Underground
3. Organising Workers in the Revolutionary Year 1917
4. Labour Commissar
5. Defending Soviet Power and Unions in Civil War
6. The Workers' Opposition and the Trade-Union Debate
7. Early NEP and the Trade Unions
8. Appeal of the 22 to the Communist International
9. Factional Politics in the NEP Era
10. Late NEP, Industrialisation and Renewed Repression
11. Purged from the Party
12. Exile, Arrest and Prison

Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

The first biography?in any language?of Alexander Shlyapnikov, a leader and founder, along with Kollontai, of the Workers' Opposition.