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Apr 15, 2024 · Vladimir I (born c. 956, Kyiv, Kievan Rus [now in Ukraine]—died July 15, 1015, Berestova, near Kyiv; feast day July 15) was the grand prince of Kyiv and the first Christian ruler in Kievan Rus. His military conquests consolidated the provinces of Kyiv and Novgorod into a single state, and his Byzantine baptism determined the course of ...
- Who Was Vladimir Lenin?
- Russia in World War I
- Russian Revolution
- War Communism
- Cheka
- Red Terror
- Lenin Creates The U.S.S.R.
- Lenin's Death and Tomb
- Sources
Vladimir Lenin was born Vladimir Ilich Ulyanov in 1870 into a middle-class family in Ulyanovsk, Russia. The son of Ilya Ulyanov and Maria Alexandrovna Ulyanova, he was the third of six siblings in an educated family and would go on to become first in his class in high school. But it was exactly their educational background that made the family a ta...
Russia entered World War Iin August 1914 in support of the Serbs and their French and British allies. Militarily, imperial Russia was no match for modern, industrialized Germany. Russian participation in the war was disastrous: Russian casualties were greater than those sustained by any other nation, and food and fuel shortages soon plagued the vas...
When Lenin returned home to Russia in April 1917, the Russian Revolution was already beginning. Strikes over food shortages in March had forced the abdication of the inept Czar Nicholas II, ending centuries of imperial rule. Russia came under the command of a Provisional Government, which opposed violent social reform and continued Russian involvem...
The Bolshevik Revolution plunged Russia into a three-year civil war. The Red Army—backed by Lenin’s newly formed Russian Communist Party—fought the White Army, a loose coalition of monarchists, capitalists and supporters of democratic socialism. During this time, Lenin enacted a series of economic policies dubbed “War Communism.” These were tempora...
Soon after the Bolshevik Revolution, Lenin established the Cheka, Russia’s first secret police. As the economy deteriorated during the Russian Civil War, Lenin used the Cheka to silence political opposition, both from his opponents and challengers within his own political party. But these measures did not go unchallenged: Fanya Kaplan, a member of ...
After the assassination attempt, the Cheka instituted a period known as the Red Terror, a campaign of mass executions against supporters of the czarist regime, Russia’s upper classes and any socialists who weren’t loyal to Lenin’s Communist Party. By some estimates, the Cheka may have executed as many as 100,000 so-called “class enemies” during the...
Lenin’s Red Army eventually won Russia’s civil war. In 1922, a treaty between Russia, Ukraine, Belarus and the Transcaucasus (now Georgia, Armenia and Azerbaijan) formed the Union of Soviet Republics (U.S.S.R.). Lenin became the first head of the U.S.S.R., but by that time, his health was declining. Between 1922 and his death in 1924, Lenin suffere...
Lenin died on January 21, 1924, in Gorki Leninskiye near Moscow. He was 53 years old. By that time, Stalin had already come to power—power he would do anything to keep, as evidenced by the Great Purgeof 1936-38. About a million people braved the cold Russian winter to stand in line for hours before paying their respects to Lenin, who was lying in s...
Vladimir Lenin; PBS. Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924); BBC. Vladimir Lenin’s Return Journey to Russia Changed the World Forever; Smithsonian Magazine.
May 14, 2018 · Vladimir I (the Great) (956–1015) Grand Duke of Kiev and first Christian ruler of Russia (980–1015). Vladimir raised an army of Viking mercenaries in 979, and conquered Polotsk and Kiev. Proclaimed Prince of all Russia, he extended Russian territories, conquering parts of Poland and Lithuania. Impressed by accounts of Constantinople, he ...
Feb 10, 2024 · Former President Donald Trump on Saturday said he would encourage Russia to do “whatever the hell they want” to any NATO member country that doesn’t meet spending guidelines on defense in a ...
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Lenin stepped out of the small, red brick depot and climbed onto the roof of an armored car. He promised to pull Russia out of the war and do away with private property. “The people need peace ...
Jan 23, 2020 · How Putin Controls Russia. By Isaac Chotiner. January 23, 2020. Russian President Vladimir Putin’s proposed constitutional reforms are widely seen as an attempt to extend his hold on power. But ...
