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On 23 February 1917, [a] Russia burst into a revolution and with it came the fall of the Tsardom and the establishment of a Provisional Government. [3] The defining factor in the fall of the Autocracy was the lack of support from the military: both soldier and sailor rebelled against their officers and joined the masses. [4]
The emergence of the Blue Army was closely associated with the American entry into World War I in April, 1917. A month earlier, Ignacy Jan Paderewski submitted a proposal to U.S. House of Representatives to accept Polish-American volunteers for service on the Western Front in the name of Poland's independence.
In June 1919, the Bolsheviks began to refer to the Makhnovist territory as the "independent anarchist republic of Huliaipole", in calls for the Makhnovshchina's abolition. [11] According to Bolshevik sources, that month's Planned Fourth Regional Congress intended to assert the region's independence and establish the " Priazov - Donets Republic ...
Russian Theatrical Society or RTO (Russian: Русское театральное общество (РТО)) was a theatrical society, which was formed in the Russian Empire and worked during Bolshevik Russia and Soviet Union periods. It was a Trade Union of the stage workers until 1919, when was formed the Trade Union of Art Workers (RABIS).
Some films just used Bolsheviks for comic relief, where they are easily seduced (The Perfect Woman) [125] or easily inebriated (Help Yourself). [126] In Bullin the Bullsehviks an American named Lotta Nerve outwits Trotsky. New York State Senator Clayton R. Lusk spoke at the film's New York premiere in October 1919. [127]
In August 1917 it was renamed the Kornilov Shock Regiment, but after the Kornilov affair its name was changed to 1st Russian or Slavonic Shock Regiment. [3] The "Slavonic" name reflected the fact that the regiment included Czech volunteers from the Russian army's Czechoslovak Legion, who wanted to preserve the unit from being disbanded by the Russian Provisional Government.
Petergofsky District (Russian: Петергофский район) was an administrative division of the Russian capital Petrograd (present-day Saint Petersburg) between 1917 and 1919. It was a working-class area just outside the south-western frontier of Petrograd, which was incorporated into the city proper in mid-1917.
Finally, on 2 January 1919, Antonov-Ovseenko made a decision on his own to start the march to Kharkiv, having learned that the last German units were withdrawing from the city and that the Bolshevik workers' units were getting ready to start an armed uprising. [17] On 3 January 1919, the 1st Ukrainian Soviet Division entered Kharkiv. [13]