Preface - Glossary - Introduction - Key - THE RULES - Decisions of the Congress. Adopted at the I Congress of the RSDRP, March 18 - Organizational Rules of the RSDRP. Adopted at the II Congress, July-August 1903 - Rules of the Party. Adopted at the III Congress of the RSDRP, April 1905 - Organizational Rules. Apoted at the IV (Unified) Congress of the RSDRP, April 1906 - Organizational Rules. Adopted at the V (London) Congress of the RSDRP, May 1907 - Rules of the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party. Adopted at the VI Congress of the RSDRP(b), August 1917 - Rules of the Russian Comunist Party (Bolsheviks). Adopted at the Eighth All-Russian Conference of the RKP(B), December 1919 - Rules of the Russian Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Section of the Communist International. Adopted at the Twelfth All-Russian Conference of the RKP(B), August 1922 - Rules of the All-Union Comunist Party (Bolsheviks) Section of the Communist International. Adopted at the Fourteenth Congress of the AUCP(b), December 1925 - Rules of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Section of the Communist International. Adopted at the XVII Congress of the AUCP(b), February 1934 - Rules of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) Section of the Communist International. Adopted at the XVIII Congress of the AUCP(b), March 1939 - Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Unmion. Adopted at the XIX Congress of the CPSU, October 1952 - Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Adopted at the XXII Congress of the CPSU, October 1961 - Rules of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. Adopted at the XXVII Congress of the CPSU, February-March 1986

Stalinism and its origins became a hot political issue in the last days of the Soviet Union and remains a question of abiding importance and concern for those interested in Russian affairs. The aim of this book is to survey the literature dealing with Stalinism, provide a rounded analysis of what Stalinism means, and suggest a line of investigation to be pursued if we are to understand the origins of the system. An update of the first edition in light of the opening of the Soviet archives and recent scholarship, this book surveys arguments about the origins of the Stalinist phenomenon. It discusses the way in which the different faces of Stalinism (economic, social, cultural and political) changed over time, and shows how the fall of the USSR was connected to the nature of Stalinism.