5 INTRODUCTION
  Chapter One
10 CHILDHOOD AND YOUTH. EARLY CAREER AS A REVOLUTIONARY
  Chapter Two
31 PARTY WORK ON THE EVE OF AND DURING THE FIRST RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (1899-1907)
  Chapter Three
57 THE YEARS OF REACTION AND THE NEW REVOLUTIONARY UPSURGE. PRISON AND EXILE (1907-February 1917)
  Chapter Four
67 FIGHTING FOR THE VICTORY OF THE SOCIALIST REVOLUTION (MARCH-OCTOBER 1917)
  Chapter Five
82 PROTECTING THE REVOLUTION
  Chapter Six
98 WORK AS THE VECHEKA CHAIRMAN DURING THE CIVIL WAR AND FOREIGN ARMED INTERVENTION
  Chapter Seven
122 AT THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSARIAT FOR INTERNAL AFFAIRS
  Chapter Eight
135 AT THE CIVIL WAR FRONTS
  Chapter Nine
149 GUARDING THE SECURITY OF THE SOVIET STATE
  Chapter Ten
169 THE PEOPLE’S COMMISSAR FOR TRANSPORT
  Chapter Eleven
189 AT THE HELM OF SOCIALIST INDUSTRY
  Chapter Twelve
217 DZERZHINSKY: A POLITICAL FIGURE OF LENINIST TYPE
237 CONCLUSION
243 NOTABLE DATES IN DZERZHINSKY’S LIFE AND WORK 1877-1926
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