Kadets before the Revolution : Part I
Program, Organization, and Politics
1917 : Part II
The Transfer of Power
Ministers, Party, and Country
Dual Authority and Partisanship : the April Crisis and Its Aftermath
The Politics of "State Consciousness" in May and June
The July "Interregnum"
Kadets and Kornilov
Concessions and Conflicts in the Last Weeks of the Provisional Regime
The Civil War : Part III
The Agony of Political Irrelevance : Kadets in Moscow and Petrograd after October
Conflicting Liberal Tactics : Kadets in the Ukraine and South Russia, 1918
First Months with Denikin : the Struggle for Balance
A "Model Solution" to the Problem of Power : the Kadet Government in the Crimea
Kadets in Siberia : the Tactics of "State Revolution"
The End of Party Efforts in Siberia and South Russia
Kadets in Emigration, 1920 - 1921
Parting of the Ways

Although many Russians thought that the Constitutional Democrats, or Kadets, would be the party that would lead them through the Russian Revolution into the ranks of the Western European democracies, the Kadets were easily crushed by the Bolsheviks in the struggle for power. How the Kadets responded to the events of the revolution and failed at the time of the party's greatest crisis is the subject of William G. Rosenberg's study. As political history, the book examines the values, programs, organization, and tactics of Russia's most prominent liberal party from 1917 to 1921. As a study of the Russian Revolution and Civil War, it probes the strengths and weaknesses of the one political group whose policies did more to influence the outcome of events than any other political organization except the Bolsheviks. Based largely on party journals and emigre archives, the book focuses not only on the role of the Kadets in the revolution, but also on the broader issue of the relationship of Russian liberal politics to revolutionary social forces. William G. Rosenberg is Associate Professor of History at the University of Michigan