Russia in Flames

To mark the centennial of the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, one of its greatest scholars has written a searing and defining account of the Russian Revolution, the fall of the old order, and the creation of the Soviet state.

Laura Engelstein is Henry S. McNeil Professor Emerita of Russian History at Yale University, where she served as chair of the History Department, and Professor Emerita at Princeton.

List of Maps
Author's Note
Introduction
Part I: Last Years of the Old Empire, 1904-1914
Part II: The Great War: Imperial Self-Destruction
1: The Great War Begins
2: Germans, Jews, Armenians
3: Tearing Themselves Apart
4: Conflict and Collapse
Part III: 1917: Contest for Control
1: Five Days that Shook the World
2: The War Continues
3: From Putsch to Coup
4: Bolshevik October
5: Death of the Constituent Assembly
6: Politics from Below
Part IV: Sovereign Claims
1: The Peace that Wasn't
2: Treason and Terror
3: Finland's Civil War
4: Baltic Entanglements
5: Ukrainian Drama, Act I
6: Colonial Repercussions
Part V: War Within
1: The Unquiet Don
2: Foreign Bodies
3: Trotsky Arms, Siberia Mobilizes
4: Kolchak-the Wild East
5: Ukraine, Act II
6: War Against the Cossacks
7: Miracle on the Vistula
8: War Against the Jews
9: The Last Page
10: War Against the Peasants
Part VI: Victory and Retreat
1: The Proletariat in the Proletarian Dictatorship
2: The Revolution Turns Against Itself
Conclusion: Revolution Against Itself
Acknowledgements
Bibliography