Part 1 Introduction; Chapter 1 The historiography of the Revolution; Part 2 The course of the Revolution; Chapter 2 The impact of war; Chapter 3 The February Revolution and the origins of Dual Power; Chapter 4 Politics and crises; Chapter 5 The Kornilov affair; Chapter 6 The October Revolution; Chapter 7 The origins of the Bolshevik dictatorship; Chapter 8 The Civil War; Part 3 The issues of the Revolution; Chapter 9 Agriculture and the peasants; Chapter 10 Industry and the workers; Chapter 11 The national minorities; Chapter 12 The war and the army; Part 4 Opposition; Chapter 13 Communist oppositions; Chapter 14 The Mensheviks and the Social Revolutionaries; Chapter 15 The Communist autocracy challenged; Part 5 Conclusion; Chapter 16 The roots of the Communist autocracy;