This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February Revolution, which arose out of the war and its extreme exacerbation of the crisis of Russian society. After the February ...

Their leaders were experienced military commanders They controlled huge areas of Russia They had the Bolsheviks ... the establishment and survival of the revolution and a communist Russia.

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 ...

November 7 of this year marks 100 years since the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia—the result of a series of events that were so complicated, cunning, and violent that the facts and causes are still ...

At the time Russia's gay community was enjoying a brief window of tolerance. After the October Revolution in 1917, the Bolsheviks scrapped and rewrote the country's laws. They produced two ...

It was created in the first days of the revolution and had big influence among the lower classes of society. Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies of the Petrograd Soviet, Tauride Palace, Russia ...