+-------------------------------------------------+ |Transcriber’s note: | | | |Obvious typographic errors have been corrected. | | | +-------------------------------------------------+ INSIDE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION [Illustration: Logo] THE MACMILLAN COMPANY NEW YORK · BOSTON · CHICAGO DALLAS · ATLANTA · SAN FRANCISCO MACMILLAN & CO., LIMITED LONDON · BOMBAY · CALCUTTA MELBOURNE THE MACMILLAN CO. OF CANADA, LTD. TORONTO [Illustration: Catherine Breshkovskaia, the “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.”] INSIDE THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION BY RHETA CHILDE DORR _ILLUSTRATED_ New York THE MACMILLAN COMPANY 1917 _All rights reserved_ Copyright, 1917, By THE EVENING MAIL COPYRIGHT, 1917, BY THE MACMILLAN COMPANY Set up and Electrotyped. Published November, 1917 TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I TOPSY-TURVY LAND 1 II “ALL THE POWER TO THE SOVIET” 10 III THE JULY REVOLUTION 19 IV AN HOUR OF HOPE 30 V THE COMMITTEE MANIA 41 VI THE WOMAN WITH THE GUN 50 VII TO THE FRONT WITH BOTCHKAREVA 58 VIII CAMP AND BATTLEFIELD 65 IX AMAZONS IN TRAINING 75 X THE HOMING EXILES--TWO KINDS 84 XI HOW RASPUTIN DIED 97 XII ANNA VIRUBOVA SPEAKS 107 XIII MORE LEAVES IN THE CURRENT 119 XIV THE PASSING OF THE ROMANOFFS 129 XV THE HOUSE OF MARY AND MARTHA 141 XVI THE TAVARISHI FACE FAMINE 152 XVII GENERAL JANUARY, THE CONQUEROR 162 XVIII WHEN THE WORKERS OWN THEIR TOOLS 172 XIX WHY COTTON CLOTH IS SCARCE 181 XX MRS. PANKHURST IN RUSSIA 189 XXI KERENSKY, THE MYSTERY MAN 199 XXII THE RIGHTS OF SMALL NATIONS 208 XXIII WILL THE GERMANS TAKE PETROGRAD? 217 XXIV RUSSIA’S GREATEST NEEDS 226 XXV WHAT NEXT? 235 LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS Catherine Breshkovskaia, the “Little Grandmother of the Russian Revolution.” _Frontispiece_ FACING PAGE Typical crowd on the Nevski Prospect during the Bolshevik or Maximalist risings 22 Kerensky watching the funeral of victims of the July Bolshevik risings 42 Mareea Botchkareva, Mrs. Emmeline Pankhurst and Women of “The Battalion of Death.” 52 Prince Felix Yussupoff, at whose palace on the Moika Canal Rasputin was killed, and his wife, the Grand Duchess Irene Alexandrovna, niece of the late Czar 92