What was the Russian Revolution? -- Russia under the czars -- The revolutionaries -- Lenin -- The gathering storm -- Bloody Sunday -- The October manifesto -- The coming of World War I -- The shadow of Rasputin -- 1917: the first revolution -- The democratic experiment -- The Bolshevik takeover -- Building socialism -- The fate of the Romanovs -- Civil war: Reds versus Whites -- Victory for the revolution -- The last of Lenin -- Russia and the outside world -- The Soviet collapse -- The legacy of the Russian Revolution -- Timeline.