1. Introduction / Ian D. Thatcher
2. Terror in 1905 / John Keep
3. Mariya Spiridonova : Russian martyr and British heroine? : the portrayal of a Russian female terrorist in the British press / Jane McDermid
4. First World War and the end of Tsarism / David Saunders
5. October Revolution, the constituent assembly, and the end of the Russian Revolution / Rex A. Wade
6. Trotsky and the Russian Civil War / Geoffrey Swain
7. Bolshevik in Brixton Prison : Fedor Raskol'nikov and the origins of Anglo-Soviet relations / Jonathan D. Smele
8. Retrieving the historical Lenin / Christopher Read
9. In Lenin's shadow : Nadezhda Krupskaya and the Bolshevik revolution / Jane McDermid and Anya Hillyar
10. Soviet 'foreign policy' and the Versailles-Washington system / Paul Dukes
11. From 'state of the art' to 'state art' : the rise of socialist realism at the Tretyakov Gallery / Mary Hannah Byers
12. Politics projected into the past : what precipitated the 1936 campaign against M. N. Pokrovsky? / David Brandenberger.