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Abstract
As special correspondent for the Manchester Guardian, Price was one of the few Englishmen to witness all phases of the Russian Revolution.
His remarkable writings provide a firsthand account of the momentous events, and include his meetings with Lenin and the Bolshevik leaders.
'Price was a man with an instinctive feel for politics. He was better placed than most reporters to understand the depth of popular desire for change'
Jonathan Steele, The Guardian
'A vivid account and complimentary to Reed's masterpiece Ten Days That Shook the World ... This fascinating book is an excellent insight to the revolutionary events of 1917-18, and how they transformed a young upper-class liberal into a fervent revolutionary'
Socialist Appeal
'An extraordinarily valuable compilation'
Eric Hobsbawm
Table of Contents
| Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
|---|---|---|---|
| Contents | v | ||
| Acknowledgements | ix | ||
| Foreward | x | ||
| Introduction | 1 | ||
| Notes on Russian Political Parties, 1880-1918 | 12 | ||
| 1. Russia in 1915 16 | 16 | ||
| Memorandum to C. P. Trevelyan, Tiflis | 18 | ||
| Memorandum to C. P. Trevelyan, Tiflis | 20 | ||
| Common Sense , Memorandum to F. W. Hirst, Kharkov | 22 | ||
| Common Sense , Memorandum to F. W. Hirst, Tiflis | 23 | ||
| 2. The Eve of the Revolution | 25 | ||
| Postcard to Anna Maria Philips, Kutais, 16 December 1916 | 26 | ||
| Letter to Anna Maria Philips, Tiflis, 1 February 1917 | 26 | ||
| Letter to C. Lee Williams, Tiflis, 1 February 1917 | 27 | ||
| 3. The March Revolution | 28 | ||
| Postcard to Anna Maria Philips, Tiflis, 13 March 1917 | 30 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , How the Revolution Came to the Caucasus | 31 | ||
| UDC , The Background of the Revolution | 33 | ||
| 4. The Provisional Government, April August 1917 | 35 | ||
| Memorandum to C. P. Scott, Rostov on Don, 31 March 1917 | 37 | ||
| Memorandum to C. P. Scott, Moscow, 6 April 1917 | 38 | ||
| UDC , The Background of the Revolution | 40 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Russian Control of the Straits | 42 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Free Russia s Peace Formula: Miliukov Repudiated | 42 | ||
| Common Sense , The Parliament of Russian Labour | 43 | ||
| Postcard to Anna Maria Philips, Petrograd, 25 July 1917 | 48 | ||
| New York Tribune , The Kronstadt Commune | 48 | ||
| 5. The Interregnum, August November 1917 | 51 | ||
| Common Sense , Economic Crisis in Russia | 52 | ||
| Letter to C. P. Trevelyan, Samara, 22 September 1917 | 54 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Series: Through the Russian Provinces | 56 | ||
| The Peasants and their Land Programmes | 56 | ||
| The Revolution and its Effects on Rural Life | 59 | ||
| How the Peasants are Taking Over the Land | 61 | ||
| Asiatic Russia and the Revolution | 63 | ||
| Equality for All and Cossack Privilege | 66 | ||
| At a Cossack Provincial Assembly | 69 | ||
| The Russian Tartars and the Revolution | 72 | ||
| The Voice of the People on the Revolution | 74 | ||
| How the Maximalists Have Come to Gain Control | 77 | ||
| Memorandum to C. P. Trevelyan, Petrograd, 2 November 1917 On the State of Russia | 82 | ||
| 6. The November Revolution | 87 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Bolshevik Ascendancy: Causes of Kerensky s Downfall | 88 | ||
| My Reminiscences of the Russian Revolution by M. Philips Price ( London 1921) : from Chapters 9 and 10 | 89 | ||
| 7. November 1917 February 1918 | 100 | ||
| Letter to Anna Maria Philips, Petrograd, 30 November 1917 | 102 | ||
| Letter to C. Lee Williams, Petrograd, 30 November 1917 | 103 | ||
| Common Sense , Extract from Memorandum to F. W. Hirst | 104 | ||
| Manchester Guardian, The Russian Class Struggle: Bolshevik Syndicalism Leading | 105 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Bolshevik Terrorism: How the Russian Electors Voted. The New Dictatorship | 106 | ||
| Letter to Anna Maria Philips, Petrograd, 22 December 1917 | 107 | ||
| Letter to Robin Price, Petrograd, 22 December 1917 | 108 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Cleavage in Russia: South Against Social Upheaval | 108 | ||
| Letter to Anna Maria Philips, Petrograd, 10 January 1918 | 109 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , The Enemy Peace Offer: Bolshevik Influence Strengthened | 111 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Bolshevik Peace Alternatives: the Revolution Against Imperialism | 111 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Russian Assembly Parties: the Focus of the Class Struggle | 112 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , The Bolshevik Idea: Lenin s Political Education of Labour | 114 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Trotsky and the Forced Peace. Enemy and Allies Both Denounced | 115 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Russian Restoration: State Machinery Again Working | 116 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Failure of Bolshevik Hopes: A Nation Isolated and Starving | 118 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Russia and the Peace Terms: Strong Opposition to Acceptance | 119 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Russian Revolutionary Tactics: Peace and War Policies with One Object | 121 | ||
| 8. After Brest- Litovsk, March August 1918 | 123 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Russian Revolution and Peace: Gathering Forces for the Future | 125 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Bolshevik Policy: A New Phase | 126 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , Russia and the Allies: Internal Interference Resented | 127 | ||
| Letter to Anna Maria Philips, Moscow, 7 May 1918 | 128 | ||
| Letter to Anna Maria Philips, Moscow, 3 June 1918 | 129 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , The Allies and Russia: Intervention Dangers | 129 | ||
| Manchester Guardian , How to Help Russia: Official Soviet View | 131 | ||
| Four messages dispatched from Moscow to Manchester Guardian , stopped by the British Censor, sent on 29 June and on 3, 8 and 10 July 1918 | 133 | ||
| Letter to Anna Maria Philips, Moscow, 18 July 1918 | 137 | ||
| 9. The Allied Intervention, August 1918 | 138 | ||
| Message dispatched to Manchester Guardian , undated, stopped by British Censor | 140 | ||
| Text of The Truth About the Allied Intervention in Russia by M. . Philips Price, August 1918 | 141 | ||
| Two messages dispatched to Manchester Guardian, stopped by the British Censor, sent on 13 September 1918 and 19 October 1918 | 149 | ||
| Part of an article written for Izvestia in 1967, concerning Price s interview with Lenin, early November 1918 | 152 | ||
| Epilogue | 154 | ||
| Biographical Notes | 157 | ||
| Notes and References | 169 | ||
| Bibliography | 177 | ||
| Index | 179 | ||
| Accord Français-Anglais 102 | 102 | ||
| Adullam, Cave of | 43 |