Inside the Russian Revolution
Transcriber’s Note: Obvious typographic errors have been corrected.
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Catherine Breshkovskaia, the “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”
INSIDE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
RHETA CHILDE DORR
ILLUSTRATED
New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1917 All rights reserved
Copyright, 1917, By THE EVENING MAIL Copyright, 1917, By THE MACMILLAN COMPANY ———— Set up and Electrotyped. Published November, 1917
INSIDE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION
Early in May, 1917, I went to Russia, eager to see again, in the hour of her deliverance, a country in whose struggle for freedom I had, for a dozen years, been deeply interested. I went to Russia a socialist by conviction, an ardent sympathizer with revolution, having known personally some of the brave men and women who suffered imprisonment and exile after the failure of the uprising in 1905-6. I returned from Russia with the very clear conviction that the world will have to wait awhile before it can establish any coöperative millenniums, or before it can safely hand over the work of government to the man in the street.
Rheta Childe Dorr
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
CHAPTER I TOPSY-TURVY LAND
CHAPTER II “ALL THE POWER TO THE SOVIET”
CHAPTER III THE JULY REVOLUTION
CHAPTER IV AN HOUR OF HOPE
CHAPTER V THE COMMITTEE MANIA
CHAPTER VI THE WOMAN WITH THE GUN
CHAPTER VII TO THE FRONT WITH BOTCHKAREVA
CHAPTER VIII IN CAMP AND BATTLEFIELD
CHAPTER IX AMAZONS IN TRAINING
CHAPTER X THE HOMING EXILES—TWO KINDS
CHAPTER XI HOW RASPUTIN DIED
CHAPTER XII ANNA VIRUBOVA SPEAKS
CHAPTER XIII MORE LEAVES IN THE CURRENT
CHAPTER XIV THE PASSING OF THE ROMANOFFS
CHAPTER XV THE HOUSE OF MARY AND MARTHA
CHAPTER XVI THE TAVARISHI FACE FAMINE
CHAPTER XVII GENERAL JANUARY, THE CONQUEROR
CHAPTER XVIII WHEN THE WORKERS OWN THEIR TOOLS
CHAPTER XIX WHY COTTON CLOTH IS SCARCE
CHAPTER XX MRS. PANKHURST IN RUSSIA
CHAPTER XXI KERENSKY, THE MYSTERY MAN
CHAPTER XXII THE RIGHTS OF SMALL NATIONS
CHAPTER XXIII WILL THE GERMANS TAKE PETROGRAD?
CHAPTER XXIV RUSSIA’S GREATEST NEEDS
CHAPTER XXV WHAT NEXT?