Preliminaries; Contents; Preface; Introduction; 1 Early Communism and Utopianism; 2 Utopianism in the Renaissance and Enlightenment; 3 Utopian Socialism in the Nineteenth Century; 4 Utopianism and Dystopian Literature in the Twentieth Century; 5 Marx and Engels The Early Years; 6 Marxian Economics; 7 Marx and Engels The Later Years; 8 Marxism Leninism and the Rise of the Soviet Union; 9 Stalinism; 10 Destalinization and the Fall of the Soviet Union; Bibliography; Index.