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e. The ten years 1917–1927 saw a radical transformation of the Russian Empire into a socialist state, the Soviet Union. Soviet Russia covers 1917–1922 and Soviet Union covers the years 1922 to 1991. After the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), the Bolsheviks took control. They were dedicated to a version of Marxism developed by Vladimir Lenin.
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. The Russian Revolution can also be seen as the precursor for the other European revolutions that occurred ...
t. e. The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution[note 1] and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup[3][4][a] was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took ...
The Millennium of Russia monument in Veliky Novgorod (unveiled on 8 September 1862) Medieval Russian states around 1470, including Novgorod, Tver, Pskov, Ryazan, Rostov and Moscow Expansion and territorial evolution of the Grand Duchy of Moscow, Tsardom of Russia and Russian Empire between the 14th and 20th centuries Location of the Russian SFSR within the Soviet Union in 1956–1991
The Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War consisted of a series of multi-national military expeditions that began in 1918. The initial impetus behind the interventions was to secure munitions and supply depots from falling into the German Empire's hands, particularly after the Bolsheviks signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, and to rescue the Allied forces that had become trapped within ...
Not to be confused with Abolition of Prussia. Fall of the Russian Empire Part of the World War I and the Revolutions of 1917–1923 Map of Europe in 1919 Date 8 March 1917 – 30 December 1922 (1917-03-08 – 1922-12-30) (5 years, 9 month, and 22 days) Location All- Russian Empire breakaway states: → Russian Republic → Finland → Estonia → Latvia → Lithuania → Poland → Ukraine → ...
The Russian communist revolutionary and politician Vladimir Lenin began his active revolutionary activity in 1892, and continued till assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his early life, during which he had become devoted to the cause of revolution against the Tsarist regime in the Russian Empire and converted to ...
The Russian Provisional Government[a] was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II on 2 March, O.S. [15 March 1917, N.S.], during the February Revolution. [1] The intention of the provisional government was the organization of ...