[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
And the new.