Spies and commissars: the early years of the Russian Revolution

Revolution: Troubling journeys ; Russia on its knees ; The Allied agenda ; Cheering for the Soviets ; Revolution and the world ; In the light of the fire ; Diplomatic impasse ; The other west.

Survival: Talks at Brest-Litovsk ; Breathing dangerously ; Revolts and murders ; Subverting the Allies ; Germany entreated ; Subverting Russia ; A very British plot ; The German capitulation.

Probings: Revolving the Russian question ; the Paris Peace Conference ; European revolution ; The Allies and the Whites ; Western agents ; Communism in America ; Soviet agents ; The Allied military withdrawal.

Stalemate: Bolshevism, for and against ; Left entrance ; The spreading of Comintern ; To Poland and beyond ; Trade talks abroad ; The economics of survival ; The second breathing space ; The unextinguished fire.