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 ...

In 1917, when Russia was on the verge of revolution, 100,000 women marched down the streets of the Russian capital Petrograd, ...

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 revolution offered Russia’s Jews many opportunities ... historians call a dress rehearsal for the Holocaust. A Jew in 1917 had two choices: revolution or exile.” During the Holocaust ...

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 ...

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

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 ...

The Russia of the Tsars was one of history's most terrible dictatorships. Yet it was the setting for a revolution in which millions of people made history. In a matter of one week, the actions of ...

The year is 1917. Millions of Russians had been either killed or wounded. The Russian people were angry at Tsar Nicholas II for getting Russia into the war. Justin Trudeau tears up as he makes ...