In this lesson, we will examine the Russian Revolution. We will see what events led to the revolution, and we’ll learn how the revolution impacted

The Russian Revolution in a Nutshell The Russian Revolution of 1917 ended the country’s monarchy. This monarchy had ruled Russia since 1547, when Ivan the Terrible was officially crowned Czar of all Russia.

Timeline of the Russian Revolution of 1917. History, Russia, the two revolutions 1917, Bolsheviks, Lenin.

The Russian Revolution was a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917 which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the rise of the Soviet Union.The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the …

The October Revolution (Russian: Октя́брьская револю́ция, tr. Oktyabr’skaya revolyutsiya, IPA: [ɐkˈtʲabrʲskəjə rʲɪvɐˈlʲutsɨjə]), officially known in Soviet literature as the Great October Socialist Revolution (Вели́кая …

What Ever Happened to the Russian Revolution? We journey through Vladimir Putin’s Russia to measure the aftershocks of the political explosion that rocked the …

The Russian Revolution was a time of great upheaval but also great creativity. As events take place to mark the 100th anniversary of the uprising, here are 10 classic images that rallied the masses in 1917. The cost and effort of fighting in World War One took a huge toll on Russia and fuelled the

The speech written by Mark Twain was signed “Samuel Clemens.” Included in his address to the Czar was the passage, “One of the brightest pages that has graced the world’s history, since written history had its birth, was recorded by your Majesty’s hand when it loosed the bonds of twenty millions of men, and Americans can but esteem it …

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the seminal events of the early twentieth century. In the face of mounting opposition and disastrous defeats in World War I, Tsar Nicholas II abdicated power and was replaced by the Provisional Government. It was not able to successfully disengage from the

This relatively uncritical approach to the Russian Revolution proved surprisingly resistant to revision over the decades, in part because the great anti-Communist writers of the Cold War years, from George Orwell to Alexander Solzhenitsyn to Robert Conquest, focused on Communism in its period of Stalinist “maturity” in the 1930s and 1940s