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3 days ago · The October Revolution. On the night of October 24-25, 1917 (November 6-7 by the Western calendar), Bolshevik forces, led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, launched an armed insurrection in Petrograd. They seized key government buildings, including the Winter Palace, the headquarters of the Provisional Government.
4 days ago · Date accessed: 25 May, 2024. For almost half a century, the classic description and analysis of Communist treatment of the nationalities question over the early years of the Bolshevik regime has been Richard Pipes magisterial The Formation of the Soviet Union: Communism and Nationalism, 1917- 1923, published by Harvard University Press in 1954.
5 days ago · So much support, in fact, that in July 1917 Lenin tried to lead a revolution to overthrow the Provisional Government, but they failed. Initially the defeat looked like it would be the end of the Bolsheviks. However, the next month they were called on by the Provisional Government to defend it against another uprising, this one being led by one ...
May 21, 2024 · For Gerwarth, these two developments – the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the defeat of the Central Powers in 1918 – are key to understanding the whirlwind of violence that descended upon parts of Europe in the years after the war.
1 day ago · World War I was one of the great watersheds of 20th-century geopolitical history. It led to the fall of four great imperial dynasties (in Germany, Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Turkey), resulted in the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia, and, in its destabilization of European society, laid the groundwork for World War II.
4 days ago · Lenin had a clear plan to establish Bolshevik rule over Russia, and didn’t waste time in putting it into action. * He Took Steps to Set up a Dictatorship: Having won power, Lenin wasn’t going to let his opponents have the chance to take it back from him.
19 hours ago · A long and bloody Civil War ensued between the Bolshevik Reds and the anti-Bolshevik Whites, starting in 1917 and ending in 1923 with the Reds' victory. It also encompassed ethnic conflicts on Russia's borders, and anti-Bolshevik peasant and left-wing uprisings throughout the former Empire. [285]
