Table of Contents
List of Illustrations ix
Glossary of Eyewitnesses xiii
Author's Note xxv
Map of Petrograd 1917 xxviii
Prologue: 'The Air is Thick with Talk of Catastrophe' 1
Part 1 The February Revolution
1 'Women are Beginning to Rebel at Standing in Bread Lines' 7
2 'No Place for an Innocent Boy from Kansas' 40
3 'Like a Bank Holiday with Thunder in the Air' 61
4 'A Revolution Carried on by Chance' 82
5 Easy Access to Vodka 'Would Have Precipitated a Reign of Terror' 106
6 'Good to be Alive These Marvelous Days' 122
7 'People Still Blinking m the Light of the Sudden Deliverance' 134
8 The Field of Mars 152
9 Bolsheviki! It Sounds 'Like All that the World Fears' 160
Part 2 The July Days
10 'The Greatest Thing in History since Joan of Arc' 187
11 'What. Would the Colony Say if We Ran Away?' 207
12 'This Pest-Hole of a Capital' 232
Part 3 The October Revolution
13 'For Color and Terror and Grandeur This Makes Mexico Look Pale' 257
14 'We Woke Up to Find the Town in the Hands of the Bolsheviks' 277
15 'Crazy People Killing Each Other Just Like We Swat Flies at Home' 301
Postscript: The Forgotten Voices of Petrograd 324
Acknowledgements 335
Notes 341
Bibliography 385
Index 405