The Origins of the Russian Civil War Book

	Editor's foreword
	Preface
	Introduction	1
1	The Failed White Counter-revolution	14
	Kornilov in April	15
	Kolchak in July	20
	Kornilov's plotting begins	23
	Kornilov changes tack	29
	Kerensky and Kornilov	32
2	Lenin Risks a Red-Green Civil War	41
	The politics of coalition	42
	Lenin and the Bolshevik seizure of power	48
	The Railway Workers' Union talks	53
	Lenin wrecks the Railway Workers' Union talks	62
3	Peace for Renewed Civil War	74
	The elections to the Constituent Assembly	75
	The Constituent Assembly and the soviets	79
	The missing White counter-revolution	83
	The SRs and the Constituent Assembly	89
	Peace and the Ukraine	92
	A separate peace for civil war	96
4	The British and the Patriotic Socialists	102
	The Maugham mission	103
	Masaryk activates the Maugham plan	111
	Not Maugham, nor Masaryk but Muraviev	116
	Balfour revises British policy	119
5	Defending the Socialist Fatherland	127
	The anti-German mood	128
	The Allies and the Red Army	132
	The Allied mission to the Bolsheviks	138
	The Czechoslovak Legion	141
	A government of democratic concentration	145
	Peace for civil war	149
6	The Start of the Red-Green Civil War	155
	The mutiny of the Czechoslovak Legion	156
	The anti-Bolshevik underground	160
	The Allies and the underground	164
	The fall of Samara	167
	Insurrection in Yaroslavl and Moscow	172
	To Vologda and Vyatka?	178
7	Disunity in the Green Camp	186
	Komuch and its rivals	187
	The URR and the Chelyabinsk talks	193
	Customs war, politicking and paranoia	197
	The URR, the Ekaterinburg government, and the Allies	201
	The Archangel government and the White danger	205
	Chaikovskii and Archangel military	210
8	Green Directory, White Counter-revolution	219
	The Ufa State Conference	220
	The unsuccessful White coup in Siberia	226
	The rule of the directory	229
	The directory and the future of Komuch	234
	The Whites overthrow the Green directory	242
	Conclusion	250
	Glossary	259
	Bibliography	266
	Maps	275
	Index	281