[CONTENTS]

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Foreword11
[CHAPTER I.] The Foundations of the Old Power: Faith, the Czar, and the Mother Country13
[CHAPTER II.] The Army23
[CHAPTER III.] The Old Army and the Emperor33
[CHAPTER IV.] The Revolution in Petrograd40
[CHAPTER V.] The Revolution and the Imperial Family48
[CHAPTER VI.] The Revolution and the Army57
[CHAPTER VII.] Impressions of Petrograd at the End of March, 191766
[CHAPTER VIII.] The Stavka: Its Rôle and Position72
[CHAPTER IX.] General Markov79
[CHAPTER X.] The Power—The Duma—The Provisional Government—The High Command—The Soviet of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates84
[CHAPTER XI.] The Bolshevik Struggle for Power—The Power of the Army and the Idea of a Dictatorship96
[CHAPTER XII.] The Activities of the Provisional Government—Internal Politics, Civil Administration—The Town, the Village, and the Agrarian Problem106
[CHAPTER XIII.] The Activities of the Provisional Government: Food Supplies, Industry, Transport, and Finance116
[CHAPTER XIV.] The Strategical Position of the Russian Front127
[CHAPTER XV.] The Question of the Advance of the Russian Army138
[CHAPTER XVI.] Military Reforms—The Generals—The Dismissal from the High Command146
[CHAPTER XVII.] “Democratisation of the Army”—Administration, Service and Routine153
[CHAPTER XVIII.] The Declaration of the Rights of the Soldier and Committees159
[CHAPTER XIX.] The Democratisation of the Army: The Commissars168
[CHAPTER XX.] The Democratisation of the Army—The Story of “The Declaration of the Rights of the Soldier”174
[CHAPTER XXI.] The Press and Propaganda189
[CHAPTER XXII.] The Condition of the Army at the July Advance209
[CHAPTER XXIII.] Officers’ Organisations229
[CHAPTER XXIV.] The Revolution and the Cossacks239
[CHAPTER XXV.] National Units248
[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 Brussilov255
[CHAPTER XXVII.] My Term as Commander-in-Chief on the Western Russian Front264
[CHAPTER XXVIII.] The Russian Advance in the Summer of 1917—The Débâcle271
[CHAPTER XXIX.] The Conference at the Stavka of Ministers and Commanders-in-Chief on July 16th281
[CHAPTER XXX.] General Kornilov297
[CHAPTER XXXI.] My Service as Commander-in-Chief of the South-Western Front—The Moscow Conference—The Fall of Riga308
[CHAPTER XXXII.] General Kornilov’s Movement and its Repercussion on the South-West Front318
[CHAPTER XXXIII.] In Berdichev Gaol—The Transfer of the “Berdichev Group” of Prisoners to Bykhov329
[CHAPTER XXXIV.] Some Conclusions as to the First Period of the Revolution338

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