Chapter I: Front Matter

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

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I TOPSY-TURVY LAND 1

II “ALL THE POWER TO THE SOVIET” 10

III THE JULY REVOLUTION 19

IV AN HOUR OF HOPE 30

V THE COMMITTEE MANIA 41

VI THE WOMAN WITH THE GUN 50

VII TO THE FRONT WITH BOTCHKAREVA 58

VIII CAMP AND BATTLEFIELD 65

IX AMAZONS IN TRAINING 75

X THE HOMING EXILES--TWO KINDS 84

XI HOW RASPUTIN DIED 97

XII ANNA VIRUBOVA SPEAKS 107

XIII MORE LEAVES IN THE CURRENT 119

XIV THE PASSING OF THE ROMANOFFS 129

XV THE HOUSE OF MARY AND MARTHA 141

XVI THE TAVARISHI FACE FAMINE 152

XVII GENERAL JANUARY, THE CONQUEROR 162

XVIII WHEN THE WORKERS OWN THEIR TOOLS 172

XIX WHY COTTON CLOTH IS SCARCE 181

XX MRS. PANKHURST IN RUSSIA 189

XXI KERENSKY, THE MYSTERY MAN 199

XXII THE RIGHTS OF SMALL NATIONS 208

XXIII WILL THE GERMANS TAKE PETROGRAD? 217

XXIV RUSSIA’S GREATEST NEEDS 226

XXV WHAT NEXT? 235

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS

Catherine Breshkovskaia, the “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.” _Frontispiece_

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Typical crowd on the Nevski Prospect during the Bolshevik or Maximalist risings 22

Kerensky watching the funeral of victims of the July Bolshevik risings 42

Mareea Botchkareva, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and Women of “The Battalion of Death.” 52

Prince Felix Yussupoff, at whose palace on the Moika Canal Rasputin was killed, and his wife, the Grand Duchess Irene Alexandrovna, niece of the late Czar 92

Gregory Rasputin and some of his female devotees 108

Alexander Feodorovitch Kerensky 142

The Grand Duchess Elizabeta Feodorovna, sister of the late Czarina, and widow of the Grand Duke Serge, who was assassinated during the Revolution of 1905, now Abbess of the House of Mary and Martha at Moscow 150

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