The Russian Revolution: a new history

Prologue: The blood of a peasant

I. The twilight of the Romanovs

The old regime, and its enemies

1905: shock to the system

The fragile giant: Tsarist Russia on the precipice of war

Russia's war: 1914-1916

II. 1917: a false dawn

Full of fight

A break in the weather

Army in the balance

The German gambit

Twilight of the liberals

Kerensky's moment

III. Hostile takeover

Lenin shows his hand

Army on the brink

Red October

General strike

Ceasefire

Russia at low ebb

Reprieve

IV. The Bolsheviks in power

War communism

Red on white

The Communist International

The ides of March

"Turn gold into bread": famine and the war on the church

Rapallo

Epilogue: the specter of Communism.