Red flag unfurled: history, historians, and the Russian Revolution

Introduction: making history and the historian

Part I. History and historians

Back and beyond? Reversing the cultural turn

Reading Russia and the Soviet Union in the twentieth century: how the West wrote its history of the USSR

The empire strikes out: imperial Russia, national identity, and theories of empire

Part II. Russia's revolutions

Toward a social history of the October Revolution

Revision and retreat in the historiography of 1917: social history and its critics

Breaking eggs, making omelets: violence and terror in Russia's civil wars.