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On November 7, 1917, members of the Bolshevik political party seized power in the capital of Russia, Petrograd (now St. Petersburg). This conflict, ultimately, led to a Bolshevik victory in the Russian civil war that followed, and the establishment of the Soviet Union in 1922. The October Revolution was actually the second Russian revolution of ...
Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917. The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup, or Bolshevik coup was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger ...
- 7 November 1917 [O.S. 25 October]
Nov 6, 2017 · In the months leading up to the 100-year anniversary of the October Revolution in 1917, the Kremlin has been subdued — and ambiguous — about its stance on the event that changed the course of ...
Feb 2, 2018 · These feelings are receding, though slowly. About 15 percent of Russians planned to celebrate October Revolution day last year, whereas in 2006 the share was 23 percent, according to a November 2017 report by the Levada Center, an independent polling organization.
Oct 25, 2017 · The essence of the October Revolution was a revolution in human culture and the creation of a “new Soviet person”, a better type of human without whom communism could not exist. This was the ...
Nov 7, 2013 · November 7, 2013. Today is the 96th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, an event which altered the entire course of human history. For the first time—if we exclude the brief but glorious episode of the Paris Commune—the working people took power into their own hands and began the gigantic task of the socialist re-construction of society.
Mar 29, 2018 · The Russian Revolution, as some historians advocating the broad perspective have long argued, should be understood not as a fleeting moment of the overthrow of the monarchy (in February) or of the provisional government (in October) and the subsequent “ten days that shook the world,” but rather as “the entire transition from the Old ...
