Contents -- Introduction -- I: THE TRADITION -- 1. The Lessons of the Marxist Classics -- 2. Populists and Marxists: The "Russian" and "Western" Paths to Socialism -- 3. Lenin as an Orthodox Marxist -- II: PEASANT MILITANCE AND PETTY BOURGEOIS CAPITALISM, 1901-16 -- 4. Proletarian Theory and Peasant Practice: Lenin, 1901-4 -- 5. The Outbreak of Revolution: The Challenge of Peasant Militance in 1905 and 1906 -- 6. A Strategy for Marxist Bourgeois Revolution, 1907-16 -- III: 1917: PEASANT REVOLUTION IN THEORY AND PRACTICE -- 7. Problems of Order and Revolution: February-April 1917 -- 8. The Burden of Political Opportunity: April-July 1917 -- 9. Lenin as Spokesman for Peasant Revolution: July-October 1917 -- IV: CONCLUSION -- 10. The Meaning and Implications of Lenin's Triumph -- Notes -- Glossary -- A -- B -- C -- D -- G -- I -- K -- M -- N -- O -- P -- S -- T -- U -- V -- Z -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.