Includes chronology, bibliographical notes, and index (p. 921-944).
Content
Pt. I. The agony of the old regime. 1. 1905: The foreshock -- 2. Official Russia -- 3. Rural Russia -- 4. The intelligentsia -- The constitutional experiment -- 6. Russia at war -- 7. Toward the catastrophe -- 8. The February Revolution -- Pt. II. The Bolsheviks conquer Russia. 9. Lenin and the origins of Bolshevism -- 10. The Bolshevik bid for power -- 11. The October Coup -- 12. Building the one-party state -- 13. Brest-Litovsk -- 14. The revolution internationalized -- 15. "War Communism" -- 16. War on the village -- 17. Murder of the imperial family -- 18. The red terror.