On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...

Although for contemporaries the February Revolution appeared to be a ... By the end of February 1917 several factors in Russia had coalesced. They exacerbated an already agitated atmosphere ...

The events of 1917 changed the course of Russian, and indeed world ... cities have endured almost unchanged through a century of revolution and the fall, rise, and fall of empire.

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

After the Russian revolution in 1917, the new Soviet government formed a Workers’ and Peasants’ Red Army. The first of 10,000 ...

April 4, 1917 Lenin publishes his April Theses condemning the Provisional Government for its incapacity to call an end to the "imperialist" war that Russia found itself in and calls for further ...

The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary ...

How about the Russian Revolution, which was launched in March ... As Ackerman notes, after Trotsky’s arrival in January 1917, “Hillquit soon would become Trotsky’s leading political nemesis ...