Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Introduction; Part 1: Why Did It Happen?; 1. The Modern Polybius; 2. The Modernizing Imperative:; 3. Fortune and Fate; 4. Did the West Undo the East; 5. The Economic Fallacy; 6. The Nature of the Beast; 7. The Role of Popular Discontent; Part 2: Sins of the Scholars; 8. 1917 and the Revisionists; 9. A Fatal Logic; 10. Academe and the Soviet Myth; 11. The Pluralist Mirage; 12. Sovietology: Notes for a Post-Mortem; Part 3: Intellectuals and Communism; 13. Did We Go Too Far?; 14. My Cold War; Epilogue; 15. The Arithmetic of Atrocity
16. The Long Goodbye-And Eric's Consoling Lies17. Judging Nazism and Communism; 18. Clinging to Faith: Public Intellectuals and the God that Failed; Index
