Was revolution inevitable?: turning points of the Russian Revolution

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Introduction

Tony Brenton

Chronology

1905-6

Foreign intervention: The long view

Dominic Lieven

September 1911

The assassination of Stolypin

Simon Dixon

June 1914

Grigory Rasputin and the outbreak of World War I

Douglas Smith

March 1917

The Last Tsar

Donald Crawford

April-July 1917

Enter Lenin

Sean McMeekin

August 1917

The Kornilov Affair: A tragedy of errors

Richard Pipes

October 1917

The 'harmless drunk': Lenin and the October Insurrection

Orlando Figes

January 1918

The Constituent Assembly

Tony Brenton

July 1918

Rescuing the Tsar and his family

Edvard Radzinsky

August 1918

Fanny Kaplan's attempt to kill Lenin

Martin Sixsmith

November 1918

Sea change in the Civil War

Evan Mawdsley

March 1920

The fate of the Soviet countryside

Erik C. Landis

February 1922

The "Bolshevik Reformation"

Catriona Kelly

1917-1922

The rise of Leninism: The death of political pluralism in the Post-revolutionary Bolshevik Party

Richard Sakwa

Afterword

Tony Brenton

List of Contributors

Glossary

Notes

Index.