| List of Tables | |
| Preface | |
| Abbreviations | |
| Ch. 1 | The Limits and Possibilities of Socialism | 3 |
| Ch. 2 | The "Push for Communism" and the "Retreat to Socialism": 1959 to 1985 | 31 |
| Ch. 3 | The Late 1980s Campaign to "Rectify Errors and Negative Tendencies": Socialist Renegade or Retrograde in the Era of Perestroika? | 60 |
| Ch. 4 | From Communist Solidarity to Communist Solitary: The 1990s "Special Period in Peacetime" | 88 |
| Ch. 5 | The Irony of Success: Social Accomplishments and Their Unintended Consequences | 128 |
| Ch. 6 | "A Maximum of Ruralism, a Minimum of Urbanism": From Idealism to Realism | 149 |
| Ch. 7 | Internationalism | 171 |
| Ch. 8 | The Relevance of the Revolution | 204 |
| Appendix : Tables | 219 |
| Notes | 233 |
| Index | 277 |
