Bk. I. The purge begins. Introduction: The roots of terror -- 1. Stalin prepares -- 2. The Kirov murder -- 3. Architect of terror -- 4. Old Bolsheviks confess -- 5. The problem of confession -- Bk II. The Yezhov years. 6. Last stand -- 7. Assault on the army -- 8. The party crushed -- 9. A nation in torment -- 10. In the labour camps -- 11. The great trial -- 12. The foreign element -- 13. Climax -- Epilogue: The heritage of terror -- App. A. Casualty figures -- App. B. Lenin on his successors -- App. C. Politburo membership, 1919-38 -- App. D. The 1943 Central Committee -- App. E. The N.K.V.D. background -- App. F. Earlier Soviet trials -- App. G. Article 58 of the criminal code of the R.S.F.S.R
