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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