1. Revolutionary ideas and the working-class movement in Russia before 1917 -- 2. The revolution of October 1917 -- 3. The Tenth Congress of the Russian Communist Party and the new economic policy -- 4. The years of "initial accumulation" and the forces collectivization of agriculture -- 5. The Soviet-German war -- 6. From the Second World War to the death of Stalin -- 7. Soviet policy 1953-1958 -- 8. Forty years' work of the CPSU -- 9. The seven-year plan for the development of the economy -- 10. The 1962 revision.