Introduction. A Short History of Taxes: Russia and the World from the Eighteenth to the Twenty-First Centuries -- Part 1. People, Places, Things: The Old Regime, Economic Knowledge, and the Coming of the New Order. 1. The Fiscal Instruments of Regime Change from the Eighteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries -- 2 Three Tax Reforms, Three Visions of the Polity. Part 2. The Politics of Visibility, the Technologies of Intimacy: Taxes and the Remaking of Urban and Commercial Russia. 3. Wealth in Motion: New Money, New Taxes, and a New Bureaucracy -- 4. Systematic Intimacy: Business Taxes and the Disciplining of Commercial Russia -- 5. Mass Taxation in the Age of the Individual: The New Personal Taxation in Russia and the World -- 6. The Income Tax as Modern Government: Assessment, Self-Assessment, and Mutual Surveillance. Part 3. The Politics of Obscurity: Peasant Taxes, Excises, and the Vodka Monopoly to 1917. 7. Everyone and No One: Indirect Taxes and the Vodka Monopoly to 1917 -- 8. The Peasant and the Fisc: The State Budget and the Persistence of Collective Tax Apportionment -- 9. The Local Practices of Peasant Taxation. Part 4. The State and Revolution, the State and Evolution: Fiscal Practices and a New Regime, 1917-30. 10. Soviet Russia and the Continuing History of the Russian State -- 11. The Meanings of Utopia: Taxes, Urban Unities, and the Several Assaults on Peasant Separateness, 1917-21 -- 12. The Economy of Licences: Taxes and the New Economic Policy -- Afterword. Russia, Socialism, and the Modern State.