Christian Rakovski (1873 - 1941): A Political Biography

Contents
Preface to the American Edition
Chapter 1: Bulgarian Origins and Family Traditions (1873-1890)
Chapter 2: Leader of the Socialist Movement in the Balkans (1900-1914)
Chapter 3: Rakovski and World War I (1914-1917)
Chapter 4: A Social Democrat Turns Bolshevik (1918)
Chapter 5: Christian Rakovski, the Bolsheviks, and the Ukraine (1919)
Chapter 6: A Revolutionary Strategy: Cominern, Diplomacy, and the Red Army (1919-1920)
Chapter 7: Christian Rakovski and the Sovietization of the Ukrainian Campaign (1919-1920)
Chapter 8: The Bolsheviks and the Ukrainian National Question (1919)
Chapter 9: The Foreign Policy of the Soviet Ukraine (1919-1923) and Its Domestic Implications
Chapter 10: Nationalism, Internationalism, and Bureaucracy
Chapter 11: Relations between Soviet Russia and West European Governments (1921-1922)
Chapter 12: The Reality of Ukrainian Diplomacy (1922—1923)
Chapter 13: British-Soviet Relations (1923)
Chapter 14: Rakovski as Ambassador to Great Britain
Chapter 15: The Locarno Spirit (1925)
Chapter 16: Christian Rakovski as Soviet Ambassador to France (December 1925—October 1927)
Chapter 17: The Last Official Struggle (October-December 1927)
Chapter 18: Exile to Astrakhan (January—Fall 1928)
Chapter 19: The Years of Last Resistance (1929—1933)
Chapter 20: Adherence to the “Party Line" (1934-1937)
Chapter 21: The Trial and the End
Chapter 22: Conclusion
Footnotes