Machine generated contents note: -- Introduction - Tony Brenton -- Chronology -- 1905-6 - Foreign intervention: The long view - Dominic Lieven -- September 1911 - The assassination of Stolypin - Simon Dixon -- June 1914 - Grigory Rasputin and the outbreak of World War I - Douglas Smith -- March 1917 - The Last Tsar - Donald Crawford -- April-July 1917 - Enter Lenin - Sean McMeekin -- August 1917 - The Kornilov Affair: A tragedy of errors - Richard Pipes -- October 1917 - The 'harmless drunk': Lenin and the October Insurrection - Orlando Figes -- January 1918 - The Constituent Assembly - Tony Brenton -- July 1918 - Rescuing the Tsar and his family - Edvard Radzinsky -- August 1918 - Fanny Kaplan's attempt to kill Lenin - Martin Sixsmith -- November 1918 - Sea change in the Civil War - Evan Mawdsley -- March 1920 - The fate of the Soviet countryside - Erik C. Landis -- February 1922 - The "Bolshevik Reformation" - Catriona Kelly -- 1917-1922 - The rise of Leninism: The death of political pluralism in the Post-revolutionary Bolshevik Party - Richard Sakwa -- Afterword - Tony Brenton -- List of Contributors -- Glossary -- Notes -- Index.