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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a civil war .
1905 is a historical account of the First Russian Revolution written by Soviet leader, Leon Trotsky.The book surveyed a number of historical developments in Tsarist Russia such as the emergence of Russian capitalism, the relationship of social democracy with the political parties and the significance of the Soviet worker's deputies.
John Reed was on an assignment for The Masses, a magazine of socialist politics, when he was reporting on the Russian Revolution.Although Reed stated that he had "tried to see events with the eye of a conscientious reporter, interested in setting down the truth" [1] during the time of the event, he stated in the preface that "in the struggle my sympathies were not neutral" [1] (since the book ...
Boris Viktorovich Savinkov (Russian: Бори́с Ви́кторович Са́винков; 31 January 1879 – 7 May 1925) was a Russian writer and revolutionary.As one of the leaders of the SR Combat Organization, the paramilitary wing of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, Savinkov was involved in the assassinations of several high-ranking imperial officials in 1904 and 1905.
Topics covered include the Russian Revolution (1905), the February and October Revolutions in 1917, and the Russian Civil War, as well as closely related events, and biographies of prominent individuals involved in the Revolution and Civil War. A limited number of English translations of significant primary sources are included along with ...
The United States responded to the Russian Revolution of 1917 by participating in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the Allies of World War I in support of the White movement, in seeking to overthrow the Bolsheviks. [1] The United States withheld diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1933. [2]
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Milyukov returned to Russia during the Russian Revolution of 1905, according to Orlando Figes in many ways a foretaste of the conflicts of 1917. [9] He founded the Constitutional Democratic party , a party of professors, academics, lawyers, writers, journalists, teachers, doctors, officials, and liberal zemstvo men. [ 10 ]