Introduction, Igal Halfin; liberty and unanimity - the paradoxes of subjectivity and citizenship in the French revolution, David Andress; the desacralization of the monarchy - rumours and political pornography during World War I, Boris Kolonitskii; making Cossacks counter-revolutionary - the Don Host and the 1918 anti-Soviet insurgency, Peter Holquist; modernity and the poetics of proletarian discontent, Mark D. Steinberg; working, struggling, becoming - Stalin-era autobiographical texts, Jochen Hellbeck; on being the subjects of history - Nazis as 20th-century revolutionaries, Peter Fritzsche; intimacy in an ideological key - the communist case of the 1920s and 1930s, Igal Halfin; Grigorii Aleksandrov's volga-volga, Katerina Clark.
