** Introduction

** Foreward

** By Way of a Preface...

* Part One

** Chapter One: Establishing contact with the comrades and first attempts at organising revolutionary activity.

** Chapter Two: Organisation of the Peasants’ Union

** Chapter Three: Police Archives Rifled

** Chapter Four: Fresh elections to the communal Committee. The notion of control.

** Chapter Five: The teachers’ role. Our activity on the communal Committee.

** Chapter Six: The First of May. The agrarian issue as viewed by the peasants

** Chapter Seven: The Workers’ Strike

** Chapter Eight: Some Results.

** Chapter Nine: The Campaign against Tenant Farming.

** Chapter Ten: P.A. Kropotkin’s Arrival in Russia — Encounter with the Anarchists of Ekaterinoslav.

** Chapter Eleven: Kornilov’s March on Petrograd

** Chapter Twelve: Resistance to the counter-revolution spreads through the villages

** Chapter Thirteen: Visit to the Aleksandrovsk factory workers.

** Chapter Fourteen: The Overtures of the Departmental Soviet to Gulyai-Polye.

* Part Two

** Chapter One: The October coup d’état in Russia.

** Chapter Two: Elections to the constituent assembly: Our attitude vis à vis the parties in contention.

** Chapter Three: The Departmental Congress.

** Chapter Four: The counter-revolution of the Central Rada.

** Chapter Five: With the Leftist bloc against the counter-revolution.

** Chapter Six: The armed peasants rush to the aid of the urban workers. The Aleksandrovsk Revolutionary Committee and the Commission of Inquiry.

** Chapter Seven: The armed struggle against the Cossacks. Delegation, disarmament of the Cossacks and an understanding with them.

** Chapter Eight: The Bolshevik-Left SR bloc in Aleksandrovsk. My observations and the consequences of them.

** Chapter Nine: Abolition of Zemstvo as a ‘territorial unit’. Foundation of a Revolutionary Committee by the members of the Soviet. Seeking funds to meet the needs of the Revolution.

** Chapter Ten: How barter was organised between town and countryside.

** Chapter Eleven: Our group’s new members.

** Chapter Twelve: The agrarian communes—Their internal organisation—Their enemies.

** Chapter Thirteen: The successes of the German and Austrian armies and of the troops of the Ukrainian Central Rada. Counter-revolutionary agents. The struggle against them.

** Chapter Fourteen: Centralising the detachments. Formation of a united front with the Bolshevik-Left SR bloc.

** Chapter Fifteen: I am urgently summoned to Yegorov’s headquarters. Defeat for our fighting front.