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May 8, 2024 · On the Web: Alpha History - Bolsheviks and Mensheviks (May 08, 2024) Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 and especially after the humiliating Russo-Japanese ...
1 day ago · Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin [f] (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili; [g] 18 December [ O.S. 6 December] 1878 – 5 March 1953) was a Soviet politician and revolutionary who was the longest-serving leader of the Soviet Union from 1924 until his death in 1953. He held power as General Secretary of the Communist Party from 1922 to 1952, and ...
May 14, 2024 · His isolation was virtually complete. Nicholas II, the last Russian emperor (1894–1917), whose autocratic but indecisive rule and disastrous military ventures led to the Russian Revolutions of 1905 and 1917. He abdicated in 1917 but was killed, along with his wife, Alexandra, and their children, by the Bolsheviks the following year.
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1 day ago · Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April [O.S. 10 April] 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist who was the founder and first leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917 until his death in 1924, and of the Soviet Union from 1922 until his death.
May 9, 2024 · A Memoir by Marie, Grand Duchess of Russia; translated from the French and Russian under the editorial supervision of Russell Lord The Fall of the Romanovs: Political Dreams and Personal Struggles in a Time of Revolution by Mark D. Steinberg and Vladimir M. Khrustalëv
May 10, 2024 · "Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy." ("Russian Revolution of 1905", n.d.) Why was there a Revolution in 1905? (Figes, 2014) "The Russian revolution did not start with the peasantry or ...
4 days ago · Famous Deaths. 1606 Forges Dimitri #1, Tsar of Russia (1605-06), murdered. 1727 Catherine I, Empress of Russia (1725-27), dies at 43. 1916 Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862) 1986 Lyudmila Pakhomova, Russian ice dancer (World C'ship gold x 6; Olympic gold USSR 1976; with Alexandr Gorshkov), dies from leukemia at 39.
