The Empire Must Die: Russia's Revolutionary Collapse, 1900-1917

CONTENTS

COVER

TITLE PAGE

COPYRIGHT

DEDICATION

PREFACE

MAP OF RUSSIA 1917

MAP OF SAINT PETERSBURG (PETROGRAD) 1917

CHAPTER 1 in which Leo Tolstoy becomes a symbol of the fight against the regime and the main ideologist of the opposition

CHAPTER 2 in which Sergei Witte fails to stop Russia from invading China and seizing Beijing

CHAPTER 3 in which Jews go on the war path: Mikhail Gotz and Gregory Gershuni create the most powerful opposition party in Russia

CHAPTER 4 in which liberals come into fashion: Peter Struve and Pavel Milyukov become the most popular politicians in the country

CHAPTER 5 in which Empress Alexandra and Dowager Empress Maria argue over who will be mistress of the palace and of Russia

CHAPTER 6 in which Russia gets a new leader of popular protest: his name is Georgy Gapon

CHAPTER 7 in which Black-Hundreder Alexander Dubrovin creates the first Russian party of the state, and oppositioner Maxim Gorky asks the West to stop funding Russia

CHAPTER 8 in which Pyotr Stolypin and Dmitriy Trepov suggest two different ways of reforming Russia

CHAPTER 9 in which art fan Sergei Diaghilev and religious fanatic Sergei Trufanov (Iliodor) try to stay independent from the state and even use it to their advantage

CHAPTER 10 in which millionaires Alexander Guchkov and Pavel Ryabushinsky try to engage big business in managing the country

CHAPTER 11 in which Grigory Rasputin becomes the most powerful kleptocrat and the most hated pacifist in Russia

CHAPTER 12 in which there is a second leader of popular protest in Russia: his name is Alexander Kerensky

CHAPTER 13 in which Irakli Tsereteli tries to turn Russia into a parliamentary democracy and Vladimir Lenin stands in his way

CHAPTER 14 in which Leon Trotsky and Lev Kamenev don’t wish for a Bolshevik revolt anymore, since they believe it to be completely unnecessary

EPILOGUE

ALSO BY MIKHAIL ZYGAR

REFERENCES

INDEX

ABOUT THE AUTHOR