1. Prologue
2. The Youth of Joseph Stalin
3. The Seminary at Tiflis
4. Professional Revolutionary
5. Imprisonment and Deportation
6. Escape
7. The Birth of 'Stalin'
8. Further Imprisonment and Life Abroad
9. St. Petersburg, 1913-17
10. The First Revolution and the Struggle for Power
11. Lenin as Stalin's Teacher
12. Trotzky in the Foreground: Difficult Days
13. The Congress of Unification
14. The Bolshevik Coup
15. Revolution and Civil War
16. Second Marriage: War with Poland
17. Stalin Becomes Party Secretary
18. Lenin's Testament, and the Conquest of Power
19. The End of the Triumvirate
20. The Secret of Stalin's Ascent to Power
21. The New Dogma
22. Stalin and the Politburo
23. The Struggle Against the Right
24. Collectivization: The First Five-Year Plan
25. The Great Purge Approaches
26. Extermination of the Opposition: The First Phase
27. Extermination of the Opposition: The Second Phase28. The Apotheosis of Stalin
29. Stalin and Foreign Politics
30. Diplomatic General Post
31. Towards Munich
32. Munich
33. The Russo-German Treaties
34. The War and Communism
35. Unconverted Diplomacy
36. The Russo-German Struggle for the Balkans
37. Molotov in Berlin
38. Towards a Russo-German War
39. Industrial Preparation: The Pact with Japan
40. Stalin is Taken by Surprise
41. Stalin Organizes his Work in Time of War
42. The Battles of Moscow: Contacts with the Allies
43. The New Command
44. Stalingrad
45. Tentatives in Direction of a Separate Peace
46. Stalin and Roosevelt: Teheran
47. Between Teheran and Yalta
48. Yalta
49. Between Yalta and Potsdam
50. Potsdam
51. The Atomic Age and the Cold War
52. The USSR and Stalin as Time Has Changed Them.