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- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Contents
- A Note on Dates, Names, Translation, and Transliteration
- Introduction: The First Century of the Russian Revolution
- Maps
- Prologue: The Blood of a Peasant
- Part I: Twilight of the Romanovs
- Chapter 1: The Old Regime, and Its Enemies
- Chapter 2: 1905: Shock to the System
- Chapter 3: The Fragile Giant: Tsarist Russia on the Precipice of War
- Chapter 4: Russia’s War, 1914–1916
- Part II: 1917: A False Dawn
- Chapter 5: Full of Fight
- Chapter 6: A Break in the Weather
- Chapter 7: Army in the Balance
- Chapter 8: The German Gambit
- Chapter 9: Twilight of the Liberals
- Chapter 10: Kerensky’s Moment
- Part III: Hostile Takeover
- Chapter 11: Lenin Shows His Hand
- Chapter 12: Army on the Brink
- Chapter 13: Red October
- Chapter 14: General Strike
- Chapter 15: Ceasefire
- Chapter 16: Russia at Low Ebb
- Chapter 17: Reprieve
- Part IV: The Bolsheviks in Power
- Chapter 18: War Communism
- Chapter 19: Red on White
- Chapter 20: The Communist International
- Chapter 21: The Ides of March
- Chapter 22: “Turn Gold into Bread”: Famine and the War on the Church
- Chapter 23: Rapallo
- Epilogue: The Specter of Communism
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Sources
- Picture Credits
- Colour Plates
- Index




