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Автор Михаил Зыгарь
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Copyright © 2017 by Mikhail Zygar
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Editor of the Russian version: Karen Shainian
Translator: Thomas Hodson
Illustrations: Yuri Buga
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ISBNs: 978-1-61039-831-2 (hardcover); 978-1-61039-832-9 (ebook)
E3-20170919-JV-NF
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
