Cont.: Preface -- Petrograd, 1916 -- The divine right of kings -- The new man -- The rising of 1905 -- The trial of democracy -- The exiles -- The war -- The German revolutionary net -- The rising, March 1917 -- The Soviet versus the provisional government -- Lenin's return -- The July days -- The Kornilov affair -- The Bolsheviks seize power -- The constituent assembly -- Brest-Litovsk.