Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- Notes on the Contributors -- 1 Grappling with Social Realities: Moshe Lewin and the Making of Social History -- 2 Demons and Devil's Advocates: Problems in Historical Writing on the Stalin Era -- 3 Gorbachev's Socialism in Historical Perspective -- 4 The Tsar, the Emperor, the Leader: Ivan the Terrible, Peter the Great and Anatolii Rybakov's Stalin -- 5 The Omnipresent Conspiracy: On Soviet Imagery of Politics and Social Relations in the 1930s -- 6 Soviet Peasants and Soviet Literature -- 7 Masters of the Shop Floor: Foremen and Soviet Industrialisation -- 8 Urban Social Mobility and Mass Repression: Communist Party and Soviet Society -- 9 Construction Workers in the 1930s -- 10 Nationality and Class in the Revolutions of 1917: a Re-examination of Categories -- 11 The Background to Perestroika: Political Undercurrents reconsidered in the light of recent events -- 12 Legality in Soviet Political Culture: a Perspective on Gorbachev's Reforms -- Index.
Although scholars have devoted much attention to the impact of technology on society, they have tended to slight the question of how technology is affected by social systems.