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v. t. e. The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in the Russian Empire, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war.
- 1905 Russian Revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1905, also known as the First...
- List of Russian Monarchs
This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of...
- October Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October...
- Bolsheviks
The Bolsheviks ( Russian: большевики, bolsheviki; from...
- 1905 Russian Revolution
The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It was the second revolutionary change of ...
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 ...
Increasing governmental corruption, the reactionary policies of Tsar Nicholas II, and catastrophic Russian losses in World War I contributed to widespread dissatisfaction and economic hardship. In February 1917 riots over food scarcity broke out in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). When the army joined the rebels, Nicholas was forced to abdicate.
The federated state structure was a facade to conceal the dictatorship of the Russian Communist Party, the true locus of power. Soviet Union - Lenin, Bolsheviks, Revolution: (Read Leon Trotsky’s 1926 Britannica essay on Lenin.) From the beginning of the 20th century there were three principal revolutionary parties in Russia.
Vladimir Lenin (a.k.a. Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov) The founder of the Bolshevik Party, organizer of the October Revolution, and the first leader of the Soviet Union. Lenin spent most of the early twentieth century living in exile in Europe (primarily Britain and Switzerland). He was a devout follower of Marxism and believed that once a Communist ...
Vladimir Lenin. Vladimir Lenin during the Russian Revolution, 1917. By 1917 it seemed to Lenin that the war would never end and that the prospect of revolution was rapidly receding. But in the week of March 8–15, the starving, freezing, war-weary workers and soldiers of Petrograd (until 1914, St. Petersburg) succeeded in deposing the Tsar.
