The book features articles composed by prominent Anti-Stalinist socialists Isaac Deutscher and Ernest Mandel, Soviet poet Yevgeny Yevtushenko, and Communist bloc leaders Nikita Khrushchev, Josip Tito and Leon Trotsky.

[1] Following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 activists are still haunted by the legacy of Joseph Stalin.

The book examines of the origins, impacts, and prominence of Stalinism in modern Russia.

"Secret Report to the 20th Party Congress of the CPSU" - Nikita Khrushchev 13.

"Solzhenitsyn: The Witness and the Prophet" - Daniel Singer Epilogue: "The Heirs of Stalin" - Yevgeny Yevtushenko [3]