telegrams/telegraphs/telephones, 60, 64, 75, 80–1, 83, 87, 185, 217–8, 220–1, 226, 230, 279, 286
Bolsheviks take command of, 281
map of office locations, ix
Military Revolutionary Committee takes command of, 279, 286
and power, 89
and revolution, 287, 291–3, 301–3
Tereshchenko, Michael, 129, 225
theory of uneven and combined development, 29
Thomas, Albert, 124
Tomsky, Mikhail, 152, 172
trains, 52, 74–5, 88, 175
and information, 20, 48, 59, 75, 82
Lenin returns from Switzerland, 103–4, 106–7
Lenin returns to hiding, 190, 202–3
Lenin returns to Petrograd, 282
military rushes to control, 59
and power, 89
and protests, 172
and revolution, 60, 64, 75, 319–20
and revolutionary ideas, 24
switchmen, 318
tracks ruined by workers against counterrevolution, 228
Trans-Siberian Railway, 11, 17, 121
and Trotsky, 319
Tsar Nicholas II boards train after abdicating, 82
Tsar Nicholas II roams during revolution, 64–5
trams, 22, 41, 45, 50, 172, 189, 264, 278, 282, 288
Trepov, Fyodor, 9
troops. See soldiers
Trotsky, Leon, 60, 62, 99, 123, 133, 143, 168, 171, 182, 189, 242, 246, 251, 258, 261, 265, 273, 284–5, 290, 294, 300, 303, 311, 315 1905, 28
alert for Kerensky’s attack, 276
‘All power to the soviets! All land to the people!’, 259
arrest warrant for, 189
and Bolsheviks, on insurrection, 262
and Broido, 259–60, 263
Chernov saved by, 180
death of, 315
on defence, 277
on desertion, 163
dream of, 317
early debates with Lenin, 23
isolation of, 314
and Lenin, 130, 285
mass insurrection needs no justification, 298–9
and Mezhraiontsy group, 146
on Order Number 1, 70
and permanent revolution, 28–30, 114
Petrograd in danger of bourgeoisie, 272
and Petrograd Soviet, 253
in prison, 191
Results and Prospects, 28
returns to Russia, 128–30
on revolution, 270–1
and revolutionary defeatism, 34
on Russia, 7
and trains, 319
as young soviet leader, 22
Trubetskov, Prince, 225
Trud Press, 275–6
map of, ix
Trudoviks, 31
Tsereteli, Irakli, 104–6, 125, 129, 131, 142–3, 155, 181, 183, 185, 207, 210, 224, 230, 250–1
call to supress Bolshevik pursuit of power, 149–51
denounces Lenin, 111
and military demonstration, 147
Tskhakaya, Mikha, 139
Tsvetaeva, Marina, 193
Työmies (newspaper), 195
Ukraine, 154, 169, 191, 195, 242
Ulyanov, Alexander (Lenin’s brother), 10, 12
Ulyanov, Maria (Lenin’s sister), 98, 108, 166, 175, 189
Union of Struggle for the Liberation of the Working Class, 11
Union of the Russian People, 21
Uritsky, Moisei, 62, 261, 309
utopia, 8, 305, 314
Utro Rossii (journal), 211
Uzbekistan, 242
Verderevsky, Admiral, 288
Viazemsky, Prince, 243
Vikzhel, 222, 226
violence, 167
against Jews, 192
and counter-revolution, 307
of peasantry seizing land, 210, 243
in Petrograd, 190–1, 256–7
and protests, 172, 175, 180
racial, 21, 25
and revolution, 9–10, 60, 132, 178, 195, 302
of workers response to succession of royal throne, 83
Viren, General, 64
Voeikov, Vladimir, 81
Volia naroda (newspaper), 128, 191, 244
Volodarsky, 152, 170, 267, 272, 290, 309
war:
and imperialism, 87
War Communism, 312–3, 316
Weinstein, 225–6
White forces, 310–1, 316
and peasantry, 311
Williams, Harold, 189
Winter Palace:
endgame at, 300–3
insurrection unfolds at, 283–4, 286, 289–92, 295–6
peculiar standoff, 297
Kerensky moves in, 195
Lenin on, 284, 288–9
map of, ix
military buildup at, 274–5
protests against Provisional Government, 119
protests head for (1905), 19
violent last day of old regime at (February 1917), 60
Witte, Count Sergei, 23, 27
women:
All-Russian Muslim Women’s Conference, 121–2, 134, 340
International Women’s Day, 41, 94
march on Petrograd, 41–2
and Petrograd Soviet, 94
and polygamy, 121–2
Rabotnitsa (journal), 273
and revolution, 93–4
rights, 121–2, 134, 317
soldiers’ wives, 115, 138
suffrage, 93–4
Women’s Battalions of Death, 207, 275, 278
Woolf, Virginia, Orlando, 2
workers:
all-Russian conference of party, 104
All-Russian Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies, 105, 140, 142–3, 170, 271, 276, 287
await Lenin’s return, 108
and Bolsheviks, 151, 191
and bourgeoisie, 183
and counterrevolution, 225–8, 234
demand pay for punctuation, 22
democratic dictatorship of workers
and peasants, 23, 30, 113
and dignity, 26, 70–1, 93
eight-hour day, 19, 30, 90, 113, 133, 223
fired at machine plant (1905), 18
First Conference of Petrograd Factory Committees (Fabzavkomy), 140
and First World War, 34
forced labour, 6
ill temper escalating, 132–3, 170
and Kornilov, mobilisation against, 223
march on Winter Palace (1905), 19
militias, 100
monarchy despised by, 78, 83
in Moscow, 61
in Petrograd, 39–40, 42
in Petrograd Soviet, 94
police shoot at, 47
and power, 113, 130, 197, 224, 230, 234, 245, 258, 287
and production, 317
protest against Provisional Government, 119
and protests, 155, 181, 184
and revolution, 98, 104, 284, 290, 298, 303–4, 307
and Revolution (1905), 24
and soldiers, 47, 49, 53–4, 277
and soviets, 263
struggle, 11
See also strikes
Workers’ Opposition, 313
working class, 8, 13–4, 16–9, 23, 29–30, 40, 89, 100, 113, 120, 132, 141, 155, 159, 180, 234
growing movement of, 16
militant increase of, 141
in Petrograd, 40
and protests, 155, 180
and revolt, 18
and revolution, 23, 29
Woytinsky, Wladimir, 171, 174, 180, 186, 272
Yemelyanov, Ivan, 190, 202
Yermolenko, Lieutenant, 185
Yurenev, Konstantin, 62–3
Yusupov, Felix, 37
Zasulich, Vera, 9, 11
Zavoiko, 216–8
announces execution of Kerensky, 217
Zhelyabov, Andrei, 9
Zhivoe slovo (journal), 185–6, 264, 275, 277
Zim
merwald, anti-war conference, 33
Zinoviev, Grigory, 33, 79, 87, 103, 112, 144, 148, 152, 155, 171, 175, 181, 186–90, 202, 252, 261–3, 266–9, 284, 290, 294, 308, 315
arrest warrant for, 189
on insurrection, lobbies against, 263
at odds with Lenin, 254–5