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The Bolsheviks ( Russian: большевики, bolsheviki; from большинство, bolshinstvo, 'majority'), [a] led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks [b] at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party seized power in Russia ...
Mar 29, 2017 · On March 30, 1867, U.S. Secretary of State William H. Seward and Russian envoy Baron Edouard de Stoeckl signed the Treaty of Cession. With a stroke of a pen, Tsar Alexander II had ceded Alaska ...
Mar 8, 2017 · In the space of just nine months in 1917 Russia underwent two revolutions, changing the country's destiny forever. ... Kerensky's rule did not last long; on Oct. 25 (Nov. 7) the Bolsheviks ...
The Civil War and War Communism (1918–21) The Civil War. One side can start a war, but it takes two to end one. The Bolsheviks found that this principle applied to themselves after October, when they expected to disengage quickly from World War I. Of the three points of their effective slogan—“Peace, land, and bread”—the first proved ...
On March 3, 1918, in the town of Brest-Litovsk (southwest of present-day Belarus), a peace treaty was concluded between Soviet Russia and the Central Powers comprising Germany, Austro-Hungary ...
- Boris Egorov
But for the moment, our story pauses in Russia. By 1922, both the world war and Russia's civil war were over, and Russia was now a nation-state. It was now the Soviet Union (aka the U.S.S.R. or the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics). Under Lenin, there was more bread, land, and peace but at the price of repression.
As frustrated military personnel began to demonstrate in the streets, the Bolsheviks attempted to agitate the troops by demanding the ouster of the provisional government. However, no coup grew out of these demonstrations, and they dissipated without incident. The Russian Revolution (1917–1918) quizzes about important details and events in ...
