iv Gorky's Despair 398
10 The Agony of the Provisional Government 406
i The Illusion of a Nation 406
ii A Darker Shade of Red 421
iii The Man on a White Horse 438
iv Hamlets of Democratic Socialism 455
11 Lenin's Revolution 474
i The Art of Insurrection 474
ii The Smolny Autocrats 500
iii Looting the Looters 520
iv Socialism in One Country 536
12 Last Dreams of the Old World 555
i St Petersburg on the Steppe 555
ii The Ghost of the Constituent Assembly 575
13 The Revolution Goes to War 589
i Arming the Revolution 589
ii 'Kulaks', Bagmen and Cigarette Lighters 603
iii The Colour of Blood 627
14 The New Regime Triumphant 650
i Three Decisive Battles 650
ii Comrades and Commissars 682
iii A Socialist Fatherland 696
15 Defeat in Victory 721
i Short-Cuts to Communism 721
ii Engineers of die Human Soul 732
iii Bolshevism in Retreat 751
16 Deaths and Departures 773
i Orphans of the Revolution 773
ii The Unconquered Country 786
iii Lenin's Last Struggle 793
Conclusion 808
Notes 825
Bibliography 862
Index 895
1 St Petersburg illuminated for the Romanov tercentenary in 1913
2 The procession of the imperial family during the tercentenary
3 Nicholas II rides in public
4 Nevsky Prospekt decorated for the tercentenary
5 Guards officers greet the imperial family during the tercentenary
6 Townspeople and peasants in Kostroma during the tercentenary
7 The court ball of 1903
8 The Temple of Christ s Resurrection
9 Trubetskoi s equestrian statue of Alexander III
10 Statue of Alexander III outside the Cathedral of Christ the Saviour
11 The imperial family
13 The Tsarevich Alexis with Derevenko
