| CHAPTER I | PAGE |
| ONE OF THE CROWD | 1 |
| The Revolution of March 1917—Recalled to London—Offered work in Secret Service—Archangel—Helsingfors—Melnikoff—Departure for Russia—Forging passports—Crossing the frontier. | |
| CHAPTER II | |
| FIVE DAYS | 30 |
| Petrograd—An unpleasant encounter—Dearth and stagnation—A secret cafÉ—Stepanovna—Quarters for the night—An eating-house—Welcomed as English—Mr. Marsh—Maria—The “Journalist”—The “Policeman”—A raid on an eating-house—Captain Zorinsky—The Extraordinary Commission—Mr. Marsh escapes. | |
| CHAPTER III |
| THE GREEN SHAWL | 79 |
| Allies expected in Petrograd—A story of Archangel—Proposals to attack Bolsheviks—Arranging Mrs. Marsh’s escape—News of Melnikoff under arrest—Attempts to arrange his escape—Buying a disguise—In the prison of the Extraordinary Commission—Mrs. Marsh’s escape—Across the frontier in the snow. | |
| CHAPTER IV | |
| MESHES | 113 |
| Back in Petrograd—“The Metropolis of the World Revolution”—Communists employing bourgeois specialists—Zorinsky supplies information and asks questions—Certificates of exemption from military service—Plans to rescue Melnikoff. | |
| CHAPTER V | |
| MELNIKOFF | 181 |
| Bolshevik Saints—Melnikoff’s Doctor uncle—Zorinsky suspected of double dealing—A Bolshevik demonstration—A new passport—Unrecognized by former housekeeper—A letter of introduction—News of Melnikoff’s execution. | |
| CHAPTER VI | |
| STEPANOVNA | 152 |
| New acquaintances—A raid on a public market—“Speculators”—Confiscation of furniture—Stepanovna in trouble. | |
| CHAPTER VII | |
| FINLAND | 162 |
| Escape to Finland over the ice—Running the gauntlet of the searchlights—Pursued—Hiding on the bare ice—Arrest by Finnish patrols—Arranging for a service of couriers—Intrigues in Finland—Back into Russia—On ski through the forest—A trying experience. | |
| CHAPTER VIII | |
| A VILLAGE “BOURGEOIS-CAPITALIST” | 181 |
| A Russian peasant’s house—Music—The troubles of a thrifty peasant—A village Soviet—Smuggling food and matches into Petrograd—Attempt to stop “sackmen”—Recollections of March 1917. | |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| METAMORPHOSIS | 193 |
| Unrest in Petrograd—Attempts at arrest—A narrow escape at the “Journalist’s”—A new disguise—A friend of Melnikoff—Zorinsky’s treachery confirmed. | |
| CHAPTER X | |
| THE SPHINX | 209 |
| At work in a factory—Joining the Red army—Tsarist officers in the Red army—Military service helpful to intelligence work—To Moscow. | |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| THE RED ARMY | 215 |
| The uniform—Terrorizing Tsarist officers—Relatives used as hostages for good behaviour—Jews in the Red army—Bronstein or Trotzky—Trotzky conciliates Tsarist officers—Penalties of refusing service—Mistakes of the White leaders—Discipline by terror—A mutiny—Revolutionary Tribunals—Desertion—The army oath—System of political control—A conscientious commissar—Cultural-Enlightenment Committees—A regimental entertainment. | |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| “THE PARTY” AND THE PEOPLE | 251 |
| “Government of Workers and Peasants” a misnomer—A gulf between the Communist Party and People—The Third International—Its relation to the Soviet Government—Disturbances in Petrograd—Suppression and arrests—A speech by Lenin—“Sackmen” legalized—Free trading permitted—Welfare of people subordinate to interests of party—A party purge—Of what did the party consist?—Training members—Three degrees of membership—What is a Soviet?—Bolshevism not Soviet Government—Soviet elections—A meeting of the Petrograd Soviet. | |
| CHAPTER XIII | |
| ESCAPE | 285 |
| Plans for escape—To join British Fleet in Gulf of Finland—Sent to Latvian frontier on military service—Train searched—The Green Guards—Across Lake Luban. | |
| CHAPTER XIV | |
| CONCLUSION | 294 |
| The only hope for Russian Communists, country before party—Influence of non-Bolshevik elements—Russian dislike of politics—Intervention must be humanitarian—Impotence of the Third International—Russian love of the soil—Bolsheviks despise the Russians—Co-operative Societies proof of Russian organizing capacity—The power of religion. | |
| INDEX | 309 |
