Table of Contents (proposed chapter titles plus subtitles and/or brief descriptions):
Preface, Acknowledgements, and Notes
Part I: The Revolutionary Year 1917 (Essay)
Part II: The Political Struggle - Leaflets of Russian Socialist Parties & Soviets
- “To the Revolutionary Students of Russia,” December 1916
- “The Day of the People’s Wrath is Near,” January 9, 1917
- “Only a Provisional Government Can Bring Peace,” January 24, 1917
- “For a Provisional Revolutionary Government,” February 1917
- “A Day to Prepare for Conquering the Enemy,” February 21, 1917
- “For a General Strike Against Autocracy,” February 27, 1917
- “Soldiers, Take Power into Your Own Hands!,” March 1, 1917
- “Joining Together to Achieve Peace,” March 14, 1917
- “Calling for Peace…And Renewed Offensives,” May 2, 1917
- “A Bolshevik Appeal Finds an Echo in the Streets,” June 9, 1917
- “Responses to the July Days Uprising,” July 3-4, 1917
- “The Bolsheviks Retreat in order to Advance,” July 5, 1917
Part III: Worker Militias and Red Guard
- Project for party militias drawn up by the Petersburg Committee of the RSDRP(b) in mid-April 1917.
- “Draft Statute of the Worker Guard” of Vyborg District, April 29, 1917
- Anonymous, “About the Red Guard” [Menshevik position] April 29, 1917
- Alexander Shlyapnikov, “About the ‘Red Guard’” [Bolshevik position] May 5, 1917
Part IV: The Economic Struggle – Documents of the Petrograd Metalworkers’ Union
- Resolutions of Petrograd metalworkers’ representatives about the political and economic situation in Russia, summer 1917
- Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Our Wage Rates Agreement,” August 17, 1917
- Alexander Shlyapnikov, “We Should Have Only One Union of Metalworkers,” August 17, 1917
- Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Tasks of the Wages Rates Valuation Commissions,” October 1, 1917
- Alexander Shlyapnikov, “Once More about the Organization of Unions,” November 9, 1917
- Alexander Shlyapnikov, “About the Conference of the Metalworkers’ Union of Moscow Oblast,” November 9, 1917 (excerpt)
Epilogue: “To All Workers” from the People’s Commissar of Labor December 22, 1917
Bibliography
Index