Rasputin, the Mystic--The Cry for Bread--Rise of the Council of Workmen’s and Soldiers’ Delegates--Rioting in Petrograd--The Threatening Cloud of Disaster--Moderate Policy of the Duma Fails--The Fatal Easter Week of 1917--Abdication of the Czar--Last Tragic Moments of the Autocrat of All the Russias--Grand Duke Issues Declaration Ending Power of Romanovs in Russia--Release of Siberian Revolutionists--Free Russia 66 CHAPTER VI. THE DESCENT TO BOLSHEVISM Russia Intoxicated with Freedom--Elihu Root and his Mission--Last Brilliant Offensive in Galicia--The Great Mutiny in the Army--The Battalion of Death--Kerensky’s Skyrocket Career--Kornilov’s Revolt--Loss of Riga--Lenine, the Dictator--The Impossible “Peace” of Brest-Litovsk 94 CHAPTER VII. GERMANY’S OBJECT LESSON TO THE UNITED STATES Two Voyages of the Deutschland--U-53 German Submarine Reaches Newport and Sinks Five British and Neutral Steamers off Nantucket--Rescue of Survivors by United States Warships--Anti-German Feeling in America Reaching a Climax 130 CHAPTER VIII. AMERICA TRANSFORMED BY WAR The United States Enters the Conflict--The Efficiency of Democracy--Six Months in an American Training Camp Equal to Six Years of German Compulsory Service--American Soldiers and their Resourcefulness on the Battlefield--Methods of Training and their Results--The S. A. T. C. 142 CHAPTER IX. HOW FOOD WON THE WAR The American Farmer a Potent Factor in Civilization’s Victory--Scientific Studies of Food Production, Distribution and Consumption--Hoover Lays Down the Law Regulating Wholesalers and Grocers--Getting the Food Across--Feeding Armies in the Field 167 CHAPTER X. THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE WAR Increase from 58,000 Men to Approximately 500,000--Destroyer Fleet Arrives in British Waters--“We are Ready Now”--The Hunt of the U-Boats--Gunnery that is Unrivalled--Depth Charges and Other New Inventions--The U-Boat Menace Removed--Surrender of German Under-Sea Navy 178 CHAPTER XI. CHINA JOINS THE FIGHTING DEMOCRACIES How the Germans Behaved in China Seventeen Years Before--The Whirligig of Time Brings Its Own Revenge--The Far Eastern Republic Joins Hands with the Allies--German Propaganda at Work--Futile Attempt to Restore the Monarchy--Fear of Japan--War--Thousands of Chinese Toil Behind the Battle Lines in France--Siam with Its Eight Millions Defies the Germans--End of Teuton Influence in the Orient 205 CHAPTER XII. THE DEFEAT AND RECOVERY OF ITALY