Chapter 1: The Genesis of the Tidal Wave
Chapter 2: Russia as It Existed between 1890s and 1914
Chapter 3: The Turbulent Years 1914–1918
Chapter 4: The Struggle within 1918–1928
Chapter 5: Society and Culture in the 1920s
Chapter 6: Marxism and Sciences
Chapter 7: New Literature and Art in the Soviet Union
Chapter 8: Requiem
Chapter 9: The Modern Times and the Fall with a Prospect for Future
Biography
Ashoke Ranjan Thakur earned his PhD from Calcutta University and joined as a faculty in the Department of Physics in 1977. He was one of the founder members of the new Department of Biophysics Molecular Biology in 1987. His research areas included structural biology, molecular biology of anaerobic bacteria and microbial bioremediation. He took up academic administration in 2001, working in Jadavpur University and four other universities, the last three of which he was the founder Vice Chancellor. His current interest is decoloniality of knowledge.
