Critical Companion to the Russian Revolution 1914-1921 Book

	List of contributors
	List of maps
	Acknowledgements and note on transliteration and dates
I	Introduction
	The Revolution and its Historians: the Critical Companion in Context	3
	Interpreting Revolutionary Russia	18
II	The Revolution as Event
	Russia, Europe and World War I	37
	The February Revolution	48
	The April Crisis	62
	The Breakdown of the Imperial Army in 1917	69
	The October Revolution	81
	The Civil War: The Military Campaigns	93
	Foreign Intervention	106
	The Tenth Congress of the Communist Party and the Transition to NEP	115
III	Actors and the Question of Agency
	Chernov	131
	Kerensky	138
	Lenin	150
	Martov	161
	Miliukov	168
	Nicholas II	176
	Spiridonova	182
	Trotsky	188
	Tsereteli	197
	The White Generals	206
IV	Parties, Movements, Ideologies
	Anarchists	221
	The Bolshevik Party	231
	The Communist Opposition: From Brest-Litovsk to the Tenth Party Congress	245
	The Constitutional Democratic Party (Kadets)	256
	The Mensheviks in 1917: From Democrats to Statists	267
	The Socialist-Revolutionary Party (SRs), 1917-1920	281
	The Left Socialist Revolutionaries, 1917-1918	291
V	Institutions and Institutional Cultures
	The Soviet State	303
	The Cheka	314
	The Constituent Assembly	323
	Education, Schools and Student Life	334
	Factory Committees	346
	Family, Marriage and Relations Between the Sexes	359
	Peasant Armies	370
	The Press and the Revolution	381
	The Provisional Government	391
	The Red Army	403
	The Russian Orthodox Church	416
	The Soviets	429
	Town and City Government	438
	The Trade Unions	446
	The Village Commune and Rural Government	457
	The White Armies	468
VI	Social Groups, Identities, Cultures and the Question of Consciousness
	The Aristocracy and Gentry	481
	Bolshevik Cultural Policy	490
	The Cossacks	499
	The Emigration	507
	The Intelligentsia	515
	The Lower Middle Strata in 1917	529
	Officers	534
	The Peasantry	543
	Refugees in the Russian Empire, 1914-1917: Population Displacement and Social Identity	554
	The Role of Ritual and Symbols	565
	Russian Industrialists and Revolution	572
	Soldiers and Sailors	584
	Women and the Gender Question	592
	Workers	604
VII	Economic Issues and Problems of Everyday Life
	Grain Monopoly and Agricultural Transformation: Ideals and Necessities	621
	Problems of Social Welfare and Everyday Life	633
	War Communism	645
VIII	Nationality and Regional Questions
	Nationality Policies	659
	The Revolution in the Baltics: Estonia and Latvia	667
	The Revolution in Central Asia	679
	The Jews	693
	The Revolution and Civil War in Siberia	706
	The Revolution in Transcaucasia	719
	Ukraine	728
	Glossary and abbreviations	741
	Index of names	743
	Index of subjects	770