Sverdlov

Chapter One: Comrade Andrei......5
Our First Meeting...........5
Leading the Ural Workers..........10
The End of Our `Freedoms\'.........15
Leaving Ekaterinburg...........18
In Perm..............20
The Hunt Is On............25

Chapter Two: Sverdlov\'s early life and early revolutionary apprenticeship.......29
Childhood.............29
A Revolutionary Coming of Age........33
The Professional Revolutionary........36

Chapter Three: Prison and freedom . ...40
The Fight Continues...........40
Moscow..............43
Back Behind Bars............45
Arrest in Petersburg...........47

Chapter Four: Narym and Petersburg ...53
Siberian Exile.............53
Back to Narym............56
On the River.............58
Together Again............61
On the Central Committee..........64

Chapter Five: In Turukhansk territory. .69
Day in, Day out............69
War...............71
To Turukhansk............74

Chapter Six: February to October ....79
February and After...........79
The Secretariat............82
The July Days............85
The Rising Draws Near..........87

Chapter Seven: The republic of soviets . . . 92
The Birth of a New Order..........92
A New Responsibility...........95
The \'Left Communists\' and the Moves Towards Peace . . . 103

Chapter Eight: Moscow ........110
In the New Capital...........110
Family, Friends and Comrades........112
The First Soviet Constitution.........118
The Rout of the Left Socialist-Revolutionaries.....119
30 August 1918............125
The Daily Round............130
In Conclusion............134