A guide to the major institutions, people, and movements associated with the Russian Revolutions of 1917-21. Two entries deal with Jews and with antisemitism during the tsarist period: (From the Bibliography of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism).

The dictionary -- Chronology of the Russian revolutions -- Maps. The Brest-Litovsk settlement -- World War I alliances and alignments -- Intervention and Civil War in European Russia, 1918-1920 -- Intervention in Asiatic Russia, 1918-1920 -- Nationalist struggles for independence and their consequences -- The Soviet Union: 1945-1965 -- Appendix. Summary of the Soviet (RSFSR) constitution of 1918 -- Members of the all-Russian Central Executive Committee Constitutional Commission -- Census statistics.