"We old men may not live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré in Switzerland ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin is hosting his Iranian counterpart President Masoud Pezeshkian for the signing of a broad ...

The man volunteered to confess to spying for the Bolsheviks if the monarchists spared the son’s life. Both were hanged after the confession in what today is Ukraine. “The revolution offered ...

Generations after 1917, there are still many people around the world with stories to tell of how the Bolshevik Revolution touched their lives. The BBC Language Services have been talking to some ...

The parade marked the Soviet campaign against Nazi Germany in 1941. President Vladimir Putin stayed away and the event was not shown live on state TV. 1tv.ru Russian state TV screened a drama ...

However, only about 20,000 found their way into America during the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 up through World War II. World War I, the Russian Revolution, and then the ...

[2] The Stalinist bureaucracy murdered virtually the entire leadership of the October Revolution. Show trials were organized, between 1936 and 1938, of Bolshevik leaders, including Zinoviev ...

What happens though if you face a dilemma like the Bolsheviks did after the October 1917 Revolution - you want to not just redistribute wealth, but also the more intangible human, cultural and ...

Security of the Tsarist state before 1905 Causes of the 1905 Revolution Attempts to strengthen Tsarism, 1905-1914 Reasons for the February Revolution, 1917 Reasons for the victory of the Reds in ...

On January 21, 1924, Lenin, historic leader of the Bolshevik revolution, died. He was the man who turned the Russia of the Czars into the Soviet empire whose characteristics persist.

ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire Late March 1918 - October 1922 The Russian Civil War rages until the Bolsheviks consolidate power, forming the Union of Soviet Socialist ...