Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Ph.D. (1969), University of Washington, is Professor Emeritus at the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is the author of the prize-winning books, Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and Japan's Surrender in the Pacific War (Harvard University Press, 2005), The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo-Japanese Relations (University of California, 1998), and The February Revolution, Petrograd, 1917 (University of Washington Press, 1981).

“[Tsuyoshi Hasegawa's] achievement in creating a superbly clear and detailed, indeed encyclopaedic, rendering of the whirlwind of events that plunged Russian society into crisis in February 1917 and gave birth to ‘Dual Power’ is formidable scholarship.”—Simon Cosgrove, Europe-Asia Studies“This book continues to be the definitive account of the February Revolution: Hasegawa has effectively used the wide variety of materials published in the yearssince his original book to provide an exemplary account of the revolution.”—Peter Waldron, American Historical Review

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of MapsList of AbbreviationsRussia and the First World War1 Russia Enters the War2 The Political Crisis of the Summer 19153 Deepening Gulf: The Government and the Liberals, 19164 Petrograd during the War5 The War and the Workers6 The War and the Revolutionary PartiesOn the Eve7 The Tsar, the Tsarina, and the Government8 The Security of Petrograd9 The Liberal Opposition10 The Liberals, Conspiracies, and the Freemasons11 The Workers and the Revolutionary PartiesThe Uprising12 The Beginning: February 2313 The Second Day: February 2414 The General Strike: February 2515 Bloody Sunday: February 2616 The Insurrection, February 27The Petrograd Soviet and the Duma Committee17 The Formation of the Petrograd Soviet18 The Formation of the Duma Committee19 The First Steps of the Duma Committee20 The Petrograd Soviet and the Masses21 The ‘Transfer’ of PowerThe Abdication of Nicholas II22 Nicholas II and the Revolution23 The Duma Committee and the Monarchy24 The Stavka and Counterrevolutionary Attempts25 The Abdication of Nicholas II26 The Duma Committee’s DelegatesThe Formation of the Provisional Government and the Birth of Dual Power27 The Formation of the Provisional Government28 Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich’s Renunciation of the Throne29 The Provisional Government, the State Duma, and the Birth of Dual Power30 ConclusionBibliographyIndex