On March 22, 1917, Nicholas II was arrested at army headquarters and ... There were cheers not so much for the triumphant Russian revolution but the coming world revolution - or so at least official ...

These were the slogans shouted at the heart of Russia's capital, Petrograd, in 1917 when women by the thousands marched on the first day of the Russian Revolution to demand their rights and drive out ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

The assassination of these two revolutionary leaders was the political response of the German (and world) bourgeoisie to the Russian Revolution. The ruling classes had concluded from 1917 that the ...

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 ...

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 ...

In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins on March 8, 1917 ...

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 ...

The author, George Orwell, published Animal Farm in 1945. He was inspired by the 1917 Russian Revolution. Animal Farm explores themes like power, hope and lies, and shows how greed can destroy ...