ForewordAcknowledgmentsSaturn and His ChildrenChapter One Stalinism as a Bolt from the Blue: The Jewish-Bolshevik ContagionChapter Two Stalinism as a Bolt from the Blue: Big BrotherChapter Three Stalinism as a Bolt From the Blue: The Counter-Enlightenment ProjectChapter Four Stalinism as Historical Necessity: Rubashov and TerrorChapter Five Stalinism as Historical Necessity: The Ambiguities of Western MarxismChapter Six From Proletarian Jacobinism to Stalinist ThermidorChapter Seven Stalinism as Thermidor: Western Retreat and Eastern ReconciliationChapter Eight Escaping FateAppendix: Domenico Losurdo: A Critical Assessment of Stalin: The History and Critique of a Black LegendBibliographyIndexAbout the Author