Contents

Introduction

1: “Let Us Seek a Prince Who May Rule Over Us”

2: “For Our Sins, There Came an Unknown Tribe”

3: “Autocracy, By God’s Will”

4: “Money is the Artery of War”

5: “I Shall Be An Autocrat: That’s My Trade”

6: “Orthodoxy. Autocracy. Nationality”

7: “Life Is Getting Better, Comrades, Life Is Getting Brighter”

8: “Russia Has Been Lifted Back Off Its Knees”

Acknowledgments

Index