By October 1917, the communist revolution in Russia, which birthed the Soviet Union, had changed the course of the 20th century. Despite the fact that there was a failed revolution attempt in 1905, ...

On November 7, 1917, under the leadership of the Russian Bolshevik Party, headed by V.I. Lenin, the October Socialist ...

On this day in history, March 8, 1917, the first phase of the Russian Revolution began in present-day Saint Petersburg. The March Revolution (sometimes called the February Revolution because of the ...

The approach of social-revolutionaries to the proletarian class struggles of the past should, in our opinion, be guided by the maxim that subsequently man is always cleverer, but that afterwards man ...

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Russian socialists and their relationship to the war played a key role in setting the stage for revolution in Russia. Lenin, the leader of the radical Bolsheviks, was an outlaw and actually lived in ...

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 ...