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Trotsky, 285

violence against, 192

Zhitomir attack on, 20

Julian calendar, 3

July Days, 175, 183, 187, 191–4, 197, 206, 222, 236, 278

Provisional Government divided after, 192–3

Kadets (Constitutional Democratic Party), 27, 52, 128, 179, 181, 200, 207, 219, 224, 236, 240, 249–52, 280, 290

celebrate Milyukov and Provisional Government in counter-protest, 119

and City Militia, 100

conservative turn of (April), 107

founding of, 24

Kadlubovsky, Karl, 283

Kaledin, General, 208

Kalinin, Mikhail, 263, 267

Kamenev, Lev, 96–7, 104–6, 110, 112, 123, 144, 155, 171, 175, 180, 188–9, 234–6, 238, 242, 258, 261, 266, 272, 276, 284–5, 292, 303, 308, 315

arrest of, 189, 191, 201

disagreement with Lenin, 113, 122, 268–9

on insurrection, lobbies against, 263

Lenin ridicules, 108

and military demonstration, 148, 150, 161

on power, 246

Kamkov, Boris, 138, 277, 280, 299

Kaun, Alexander, 1

Kerensky, Alexander, 44, 52–5, 73, 99, 103, 125–6, 166, 177, 185, 242, 248, 250, 252, 280, 283, 286, 292, 304

adoration of, 92

and ascension of Michael, 83–4

assault on Bolsheviks, 275–7

authoritarian madness of, 233, 281

on Bolshevik insurrection, 264

Bonapartism of, 193, 239

and counterrevolution, 228, 230–3, 243, 307

Directory of, 223–4, 238

protest against, 241

distrust towards, 63, 168, 172, 277, 280, 296

and Duma’s Provisional Committee, 55–6

and First World War, 31, 135–6, 154

gossip about, 256

and Kornilov, 194, 196, 199–200, 204–5, 207–8, 211

Kornilov ordered to step down, 220

on martial law, 213–4, 216–9

plot against Kerensky, 216–9

war between, 221–2

on law and order, 259

Lenin suspicious of, 87, 193

and Lvov, 215

and military demonstration, 147, 151

at Moscow State Conference, 207–9

and new cabinet of Provisional Government, 76–9, 129

‘On the Rights of Soldiers’, 135

as prime minister, 193–6

and Provisional Government, 256

and revolution

demands dissolution of revolutionary committees, 239

desperate appeal against, 285

escapes from, 287

liquidation of Military Revolutionary Committee, 272–3

smothers radical agitation, 239

and soldiers, 135–6, 140, 162

and Soviet, 54

begs for soviet acquiescence, 58

Trotsky repudiates, 260

Zavoiko announces execution of, 217–8

Khabalov, General Sergei, 39, 46, 49, 55

Khinchuk, Lev, 150, 152, 296

Khlebnikov, Velimir, 28

Kishkin, Nikolai Mikhailovich, 290, 301

as dictator, 290–1

Koksharova, Yelizaveta, 186

Kolchak, Alexander, 311

Kollontai, Alexandra, 86–7, 94, 98, 108, 114, 189, 261, 263, 272, 294, 313

arrest of, 189, 201

Konovalov, Alexander, 288, 301–2

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Kornilov, General Lavr, 119, 193–4, 206, 211, 224

as commander in chief, 194, 196

counterrevolutionary plan, 215–6, 225, 227–9

collapse of, 231

maximum mobilisation against, 230

and Kerensky, 194, 196, 199–200, 204–5, 207–8, 211

Kornilov ordered to step down, 220

on martial law, 213–4, 216–9

plot against Kerensky, 216–9

war between, 221–2

mobilisation against, 223

at Moscow State Conference, 208

and soldiers, 245

transferred to Bykhov Monastery, 238–9

as tyrant, 196, 199

Kornilov Revolt, 231–4

Krasnov, General, 307

Krimov, General, 214, 216–7, 220, 230, 232

suicide of, 233

Kronstadt naval base/sailors, 56, 149, 160, 169, 171, 286, 289, 316

await Lenin’s return, 108

and counterrevolution, mobilisation against, 229

and February insurrection, 56

military display, 142, 144

and protest, 201

radical sympathies of, 91

and revolution, 63–4, 176–8, 180–2

Kronstadt Soviet, 91

denounces coalition government, 133

Kropotkin, Prince Peter, 31

Kruglova, Arishina, 44

Krupskaya, Nadezhda, 18–9, 27–8, 40, 103, 138, 144, 188, 203, 259, 279

in exile, 40

Krymov, Alexander, 36

Kshesinskaya Mansion, 110, 112, 145, 148, 168, 170, 173, 176, 186–7

map of, ix

Kshesinskaya, Matilda, 110

Kuprin, Alexander, 92

Kuzmin, Michael, 71

labour, and technology, 11

land:

Lenin calls for nationalization of, 111

Lenin calls for redistribution of, 137

lost after First World War, 309

and peace, 280–1

and peasantry, 111, 137, 181, 210, 223, 234, 243, 259, 304, 312, 317

power struggles and negotiation over, 73, 115–6

seizure of, Provisional Government on, 91–2

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Larin, Yuri, 62, 197, 234, 269

Lashkevitch, Captain, 48–9, 173

Latifiya, Fatima, 122

Latsis, Martin, 147, 149, 151–2, 161, 167, 188, 191, 258, 263, 266

Latvia, 90–1, 139, 153, 192

Germany takes, 211–2

Lazimir, Pavel, 265, 276

leaflets:

against protest, 174–5

anarchist, 145

and crowds, 52

on martial law, 217

military demonstrations, 147

for mobilisation against Kornilov, 223

only organisation publishing during opening skirmishes of revolution, 63

overthrow Provisional Government, 119

overthrow tsar Nicholas, II, 18

Soviet acquiescence, 58–9

left:

diaspora, 27–8

Kerensky scared of, 232

recovery, 201

rise of, 107, 241, 244, 246

Left Opposition, 313–5

Lena Massacre, 30

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, 12, 27–8, 133, 138, 152, 154, 170, 174–5, 197, 215, 243, 250, 305

anti-war call, 33–4, 86–7, 109, 118, 123, 164–5, 309

on April Days, 122

April Theses of, 106, 111, 122, 139

published in Pravda along with disagreements, 113

rejection of, 111–2

arrest warrant for, 189, 191

and Bolsheviks, 111–3

on insurrection, 262

on bourgeoisie, 143

campaign to win comrades, 114

censored writings of, 252–4

on coalition with Mensheviks, 212, 315

Cossacks hunt for, 201–2

on counterrevolution, 212, 231

death of, 313

on defence, 279

at Democratic State Conference, 246

denunciation of, 111

disguise of, 248, 282

early debates with Trotsky, 23

in exile, 40

and First World War, 32, 161

health of, 313

in hiding, 188–90, 202–4

on insurrection, 261–3, 269–70, 276

isolation of, 111, 247, 309

Kadets protest against, 119

on Kamenev, 268–9

on Kerensky, 87, 193

on Kornilov crisis, 231–2

on land redistribution, 111, 137

letters of, 203–4, 247–8, 257–8, 268

Martov, split with, 16–7

masses waiting for Bolsheviks, 267

on military demonstration, 144, 148, 160–1

military plot of, 253

on Milyukov note, 118

and news, 184–5, 203, 249

on overthrow of Provisional Government, 120

plots a comeback, 248–9

political sensibility, 12–3

on power, take it now, 246, 254–5, 258, 261, 279, 282–3

and protests, 177

on Provisional Government, 111–2, 114, 288, 290

return from Switzerland, 101, 103–4, 106–9

return to Russia, 87–8

return to Petrograd, 259, 281–2

on revolution, 86, 98, 109–10, 113, 151, 247, 255, 290, 304, 309–10

and revolutionary defeatism, 34, 86–7, 96, 164–5, 231

on revolutionary ‘defencism’, 110–1, 123

revolutionary planning, 283–5, 289, 291

revolutionary proclamation, 286–7

on Russia, defence of, 86–7

on socialism, 306

on soviet power, 239, 303