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Foreword | 11 |
CHAPTER I. The Foundations of the Old Power: Faith, the Czar, and the Mother Country | 13 |
CHAPTER II. The Army | 23 |
CHAPTER III. The Old Army and the Emperor | 33 |
CHAPTER IV. The Revolution in Petrograd | 40 |
CHAPTER V. The Revolution and the Imperial Family | 48 |
CHAPTER VI. The Revolution and the Army | 57 |
CHAPTER VII. Impressions of Petrograd at the End of March, 1917 | 66 |
CHAPTER VIII. The Stavka: Its RÔle and Position | 72 |
CHAPTER IX. General Markov | 79 |
CHAPTER X. The Power—The Duma—The Provisional Government—The High Command—The Soviet of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates | 84 |
CHAPTER XI. The Bolshevik Struggle for Power—The Power of the Army and the Idea of a Dictatorship | 96 |
CHAPTER XII. The Activities of the Provisional Government—Internal Politics, Civil Administration—The Town, the Village, and the Agrarian Problem | 106 |
CHAPTER XIII. The Activities of the Provisional Government: Food Supplies, Industry, Transport, and Finance | 116 |
CHAPTER XIV. The Strategical Position of the Russian Front | 127 |
CHAPTER XV. The Question of the Advance of the Russian Army | 138 |
CHAPTER XVI. Military Reforms—The Generals—The Dismissal from the High Command | 146 |
CHAPTER XVII. “Democratisation of the Army”—Administration, Service and Routine | 153 |
CHAPTER XVIII. The Declaration of the Rights of the Soldier and Committees | 159 |
CHAPTER XIX. The Democratisation of the Army: The Commissars | 168 |
CHAPTER XX. The Democratisation of the Army—The Story of “The Declaration of the Rights of the Soldier” | 174 |
CHAPTER XXI. The Press and Propaganda | 189 |
CHAPTER XXII. The Condition of the Army at the July Advance | 209 |
CHAPTER XXIII. Officers’ Organisations | 229 |
CHAPTER XXIV. The Revolution and the Cossacks | 239 |
CHAPTER XXV. National Units | 248 |
CHAPTER XXVI. May and the Beginning of June in the Sphere of Military Administration—The Resignation of Gutchkov and General Alexeiev—My Departure from the Stavka—The Administration of Kerensky and General Brussilov | 255 |
CHAPTER XXVII. My Term as Commander-in-Chief on the Western Russian Front | 264 |
CHAPTER XXVIII. The Russian Advance in the Summer of 1917—The DÉbÂcle | 271 |
CHAPTER XXIX. The Conference at the Stavka of Ministers and Commanders-in-Chief on July 16th | 281 |
CHAPTER XXX. General Kornilov | 297 |
CHAPTER XXXI. My Service as Commander-in-Chief of the South-Western Front—The Moscow Conference—The Fall of Riga | 308 |
CHAPTER XXXII. General Kornilov’s Movement and its Repercussion on the South-West Front | 318 |
CHAPTER XXXIII. In Berdichev Gaol—The Transfer of the “Berdichev Group” of Prisoners to Bykhov | 329 |
CHAPTER XXXIV. Some Conclusions as to the First Period of the Revolution | 338 |