"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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the moment, there are no Bolsheviks. This comes from the leftist publishing house Parus, founded before the revolution by writer Maxim Gorky. Their posters were often created by famous poets ...

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.

Putin drew comparisons to the crisis that saw the Russian empire slide out of the First World War and into the full throes of the Bolshevik Revolution. But analysts "pointed to the inaccuracies of ...

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 ...