The discipline and I
pt. 1. The fate of ideas in history
Alexander Herzen and Isaiah Berlin on Russia's elusive counter-Enlightenment
Russian and Western European roots of Soviet totalitarianism
Traditions, old and new : patterns of protest and dissent in modern Russia
pt. 2. Social groups in comparative perspective
On intellectuals and intellectual traditions in eighteenth- and nineteenth- century Russia
The nobility in Russia and Western Europe : contrasts and similarities
Comparing Russian serfdom and American slavery
Agrarian crisis, urbanization, and the Russian peasants at the end of the old regime, 1880s-1920s
pt. 3. Approaches to the history of Russia
Re-inventing the Enlightenment : Western images and Eastern realities in the eighteenth century
Political murder in Russian culture : comparisons and counterfactuals
Current events and the representation of the past : issues in Russian historical writing
Afterword.