Contents

pp vii-viii

Preface

pp ix-ix

Acknowledgements

pp x-x

Note on dates and transliteration

pp xi-xi

Map of regions and guberniyas of European Russia

pp xii-xii

Introduction

pp 1-2

Part I - From Populism to the SR party (1881–1901)

pp 3-4

1 - The Populist legacy

pp 5-13

2 - The first peasant Brotherhood

pp 14-23

3 - The Agrarian-Socialist League

pp 24-33

4 - Rural propaganda in Saratov guberniya

pp 34-41

5 - The party and the League

pp 42-50

Part II - The campaign for the peasantry (1902–1904)

pp 51-52

6 - The peasant movement of 1902

pp 53-57

7 - The SR Peasant Union

pp 58-69

8 - The problem of cadres

pp 70-90

9 - Agrarian terrorism

pp 91-98

Part III - The revolution of 1905

pp 99-100

10 - The party, the peasantry and the revolution

pp 101-117

11 - The nature of the peasant movement

pp 118-140

Part IV - The aftermath of revolution (1906–1908)

pp 141-142

12 - The party approves its programme

pp 143-152

13 - Splits in the party

pp 153-167

14 - The SR agrarian programme in the first two Dumas

pp 168-176

15 - The commune, socialisation, and the Stolypin reforms

pp 177-184

16 - Party activity in the countryside

pp 185-195

Conclusion

pp 196-203

Glossary

pp 204-205

Bibliography

pp 206-209