Black night, white snow : Russia's Revolutions 1905-1917 /
Harrison E. Salisbury.
- first edition.
- Garden City, New York : Doubleday, (c)1978.
- xv, 746 pages ; 26 cm.
A quiet revolution -- But for how long? -- Volga Mat' -- "The best and most thoughtful" -- Up against the wall -- What is to be done? -- Life for the Czar -- The seeds are planted -- On the eve -- The state is set -- "A small victorious war" -- Not a good summer -- The night before -- Bloody Sunday -- The Czar sleeps -- Lenin -- The dress rehearsal -- The first scene -- The last stages -- From the tower -- The arts explode -- "What a bad joke is man!" -- The Starets -- On the brink -- Three hundred years -- Last warnings -- Impotence before fate -- "We are Kalutsky..." -- "A healthy war" -- The little comb -- "For baby's sake" -- The dance macabre -- Russian blood -- A quiet winter -- "Only people changed" -- "I think the revolution has begun" -- The first shot -- Revolutionary Sunday -- A year and a half too late -- "Nothing's left but Russia" -- The Czar on the run -- The Czar steps down -- The news spreads -- To the Finland Station -- At last : Petrograd -- The tragedy of Lotarevo -- The Villa Durnovo -- Lenin hunkers down -- Waiting -- The Bolsheviks begin to move -- October days -- A threatening night -- The coup d'etat begins -- The Winter Palace -- Before the storm -- The storming of the Winter Palace -- The day after -- Permanent crisis -- Full steam ahead through the swamp -- The twelve -- The house of special designation -- "The terrorists will consider us old women" -- "No news from the outside" -- Where is my home?
An account of the revolutions in Russia from 1905 to 1917 that resulted in the overthrow of the Romanov dynasty and the establishment of a new form of government.