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 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 ...

Skip to content viewer section. This paper uses modern econometric approaches to program evaluation with one treated unit to predict how Russia could have developed without the Revolution of 1917. I ...

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 ...

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 ...