1. The political background -- 2. The economic policy of the first eight months -- 3. The process of economic decline -- 4. The period of 'war communism' -- 5. The transition to the new economic policy -- 6. The beginning of reconstruction -- 7. The new form of industrial organisation -- 8. The 'scissors' crisis of 1923 -- 9. The closing of the 'scissors' -- 10. The problem of fixed capital -- 11. Town and village -- 12. Economic prospects.