Frontmatter

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Editor’s Foreword v
3. Contents vii
4. Participants in the Conference on the Russian Revolution ix
5. The Breakdown of the Tsarist Autocracy 1
6. The Origins of Bolshevism: The Intellectual Evolution of Young Lenin 26
7. German Political Intervention in Russia during World War I 63
8. The Political Thought of the First Provisional Government 97
9. The Political Ideology of the Leaders of the Petrograd Soviet in the Spring of 1917 114
10. The Aspirations of Russian Society 143
11. The Bolshevik Insurrection in Petrograd 164
12. October in the Provinces 180
13. The Origins of the Red Army 224
14. Town and Country in the Civil War 259
15. A Historical Turning Point: Marx, Lenin, Stalin 282
16. The Relationship of Bolshevism to Marxism 301
17. The Uses of Revolution 333
18. Index 355