CI – Communist International
Imperialism – Imperialism, the Highest Stage of Capitalism
RDDPP – Revolutionary Democratic Dictatorship of the Proletariat and Peasantry
RSDLP – Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party
RSDLP(B) – Russian Social-Democratic Labour Party (Bolsheviks)
SD – Social Democracy or Social Democrat, as determined by the context
SDs – Social Democrats
SR – Socialist Revolutionary
SRs – Socialist Revolutionaries
The … Renegade Kautsky – The Proletariat Revolution and the Renegade Kautsky
ToPR – Theory of Permanent Revolution
Two Tactics – The Two Tactics of Social Democracy in the Democratic Revolution
St Petersburg, capital of the Tsarist empire, had its name changed to Petrograd in 1914.
Dates: All dates before 1 February 1918 are given according to the old Russian, Julian calendar which was 13 days behind that used in the West. To change to a modern calendar add 13 days.
Emphasis: Within quotations the author’s original emphasis is indicated by italic script.
References: These are numeric in the text and refer to a list at the end of each chapter.