This year marks the 107 th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. In the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter ...

This means that today the days of the February Revolution fall during March and the October Revolution during November. RBTH indicated the dates according to the Julian calendar with New Style ...

Enter Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (born Ulyanov) and his Bolshevik party, which stormed and vandalized the Winter Palace in Petrograd—an act that would go down in history under the name of the “October ...

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 ...

Twenty-five-year-old poet Alexander Briansky remembers the October Revolution and the taking of the Winter Palace: "Everyone rushed forward, shouting `Hurrah!' We climbed over the gates and broke ...

Economic difficulties had played a major role in Nicholas II's fall from power. The Provisional Government had very limited success in dealing with these problems: The price of goods continued to ...