"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 ...

Lenin, historic leader of the Bolshevik revolution, died. He was the man who turned the Russia of the Czars into the Soviet ...

What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...

The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Tariq Ali, Verso, 384 pages. On October 25, 1917, across the city of Petrograd, the Bolshevik party was preparing to take power ...

Lenin returned to Russia in April and ... despite the fact that the Bolshevik-led revolution clearly enjoyed mass support. Even after the overthrow, the Mensheviks rebuffed efforts of moderate ...

prompting even Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to declare Russia in April 1917 “the freest country in the world,” it was the ...

The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events ...

Lenin "was the creator of the first totalitarian ... out of the First World War and into the full throes of the Bolshevik Revolution. But analysts "pointed to the inaccuracies of the potted ...

Petersburg belonged to the Bolsheviks. These three men are guarding a side road leading to the Smolny Institute, which had become Lenin's headquarters after the October Revolution. Lenin held ...

Communists staged their own parade in Moscow, with portraits of Lenin and Stalin. The party is now a pale shadow of its former self. A woman in Belarus poses by a flag with a portrait of Lenin.

One hundred years ago, the Russia Revolution rocked the world, first with the overthrow of the Tsar in February and then with the Bolshevik-led taking of full power by the soviets (elected councils of ...