"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 ...

On October 25, 1917, across the city of Petrograd, the Bolshevik party was preparing to take power from the Provisional Government that had overthrown the autocratic Tsarist regime the previous ...

The Russian Revolution saw Imperial Russia's high society come crumbling down in 1917. Discover what happened to the ...

The dramatic end of Nicholas II’s reign in Russia was one of the turning points of the early 20th century. Could he have ...

1917 Provisional forces move against the Bolsheviks in Saint Petersburg October 25, 1917 Bolshevik revolutionaries storm the Winter Palace and seize control of power from the Provisional Government ...

As other parties in Russia compromised themselves in the eyes of the masses, the Bolsheviks faced difficult tactical questions related to the uneven character of the struggle. The period of ...

and "Tear off the chains and the entire world will be free". The Bolshevik Party (the RSDLP) was slow to the poster game. This 1917 election campaign poster simply says: "Vote for the RSDLP list".

The central theme of the work is the reaction of the British government to the November Revolution of 1917 which brought the Bolsheviks to control of central Russia. During that winter the British ...

When the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, they declared war on the bourgeoisie of Russia. But how could they create a more equal society when knowledge was concentrated among the elite? Tomila Lankina’s ...

Not only that, but following the October 1917 revolution in Russia, it had become a vocal supporter of the Bolsheviks. For the primary school teachers of Ireland to align themselves, if only by ...