Description
By Robert Wilton
A new and completely reset edition of the 1918 original, featuring all the original illustrations and maps, digitally restored to the highest possible quality. The author, a journalist working in Russia at the time of the Russian Revolution which saw the Bolshevists sweep to power, provides one of the few eye-witness accounts of those tumultuous times.
A fervent anti-Communist, Wilton’s narration contains many of the prejudices of his time, but nonetheless contains many valuable insights into the conditions and events of the time, including the influence of the famous monk Rasputin, the struggle faced by the Tsar in dealing with the war against Germany and internal revolt, the role of the German government in aiding the Bolshevists, the Kronstadt sailors’ revolt, Jews, anti-Semitism, the revolutionary parties, the Tsar’s abdication, the first elections, and the Bolshevist seizure of power.
Finally, Wilton provides an overly optimistic view of Russia’s future, and a short series of appendices dealing with later political and economic issues.
This new edition also contains a reformatted index.
Robert Wilton (1868-1925) was a British journalist who worked for the London Times and the New York Herald, specializing in Russian and German political reporting. He was present in Russia during the Russian Revolution, and wrote two books based on his experiences, “Russia’s Agony” (1918) and “The Last Days of the Romanovs” (1920).
Chapter I: Introduction
Chapter II: Origins, Rise, and Decline
Chapter III: Bureaucracy and Okhrana
Chapter IV: The National Conscience
Chapter V: Razputinism and the Court
Chapter VI: German Influences
Chapter VII: The Jews
Chapter VIII: Conditions of Upheaval
Chapter IX: Revolution versus Evolution
Chapter X: Revolutionary Parties
Chapter XI: The Revolution
Chapter XII: The Soviet, “Coalition,” and Bolshevism
Chapter XIII: Abdication and After
Chapter XIV: Mutiny of the Sailors
Chapter XV: “No Annexation and No Indemnity”
Chapter XVI: Anarchy
Chapter XVII: The Outbreak of Hostilities
Chapter XVIII: Poor Armaments; Splendid Army
Chapter XIX: Soldau-Tannenberg and After
Chapter XX: “The Hun within the Gates”
Chapter XXI: Nationality Problems
Chapter XXII: Short-Lived Victory
Chapter XXIII: The Bolshevist Betrayal
Chapter XXIV: The Fight with Bolshevism
Chapter XXV: The Hope of Russia
Chapter XXVI: The New Russia
Appendix I: Declaration of the Progressive Bloc
Appendix II: The “Soldiers’ Charter”
Appendix III: Foreign Trade of Russia
Index
338 pages
Softcover ISBN
9781915645258
Hardcover ISBN
9781915645395
