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Frontmatter -- Preface -- Contents -- Tables -- Charts -- PART ONE. The Pursuit of Power -- Chapter 1. The Seedbed of Revolution -- Chapter 2. Bolshevism before 1917 -- Chapter 3. The Road to Power -- Chapter 4. The Dynamics of Power -- PART TWO. The Role of the Party -- Chapter 5. The Dictatorship of the Party in Theory and Practice -- Chapter 6. The Growth of the Party Apparatus -- Chapter 7. Party Organization, Activities, and Problems -- Chapter 8. The Composition and Social Structure of the Party -- Chapter 9. The Komsomol - Youth under Dictatorship -- Chapter 10. The Party Command - Politburo and Presidium -- PART THREE. Instruments of Rule -- Chapter 11. Constitutional Myths and Political Realities -- Chapter 12. The Control of the Bureaucracy - Public Administration in the Soviet Union -- Chapter 13. Terror as a System of Power -- Chapter 14. The Party and the Armed Forces -- PART FOUR. Problems and Prospects -- Chapter 15. Management and Labor in Soviet Industry -- Chapter 16. Controls and Tensions in Soviet Agriculture -- Chapter 17. The Soviet Political System - Problems and Prospects -- APPENDIX. Khrushchevism in Retrospect -- List of Readings, Notes, Index -- A LIST OF SUPPLEMENTARY READINGS - CLASSIFIED BY TOPICS -- NOTES -- INDEX -- Backmatter