| | Foreword |
| I | Yanovka |
| II | Our Neighbors and My First School |
| III | Odessa: My Family and My School |
| IV | Books and Early Conflicts |
| V | Country and Town |
| VI | The Break |
| VII | My First Revolutionary Organization |
| VIII | My First Prisons |
| IX | My First Exile |
| X | My First Escpape |
| XI | An Immigrant for the First Time |
| XII | The Party Congress and the Split |
| XIII | The Return to Russia |
| XIV | The Year 1905 |
| XV | Trial, Exile, Escape |
| XVI | My Second Foreign Exile: German Socialism |
| XVII | Preparing for a New Revolution |
| XVIII | The Beginning or The War |
| XIX | Paris and Zimmerwald |
| XX | My Expulsion From France |
| XXI | Through Spain |
| XXII | New York |
| XXIII | In A Concentration Camp |
| XXIV | In Petrograd |
| XXV | Concerning Slanderers |
| XXVI | From July to October |
| XXVII | The Deciding Night |
| XXVIII | Trotskyism"in 1917 |
| XXIX | In Power |
| XXX | In Moscow |
| XXXI | Negotiations at Brest-Litovsk |
| XXXII | Peace |
| XXXIII | A Month at Sviyazhsh |
| XXXIV | The Train |
| XXXV | The Defense of Petrograd |
| XXXVI | The Military Opposition |
| XXXVII | Disagreements Over War Strategy |
| XXXVIII | The Transtion to the New Economic Policy, and My Relations With Lenin |
| XXXIX | Lenins Illness |
| XL | The Conspiracy of the Epigones |
| XLI | Lenins Death and the Shift of Power |
| XLII | The Last Period of Struggle Within the Party |
| XLIII | The Exile |
| XLIV | The Deportation |
| XLV | The Planet Without a Visa |