CONTENTS

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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

The old banner

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