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Précis of Russian Revolution Archived 27 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine—A summary of the key events and factors of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kevin Murphy's Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize lecture "Can we Write the History of the Russian Revolutionæ , which examines historical accounts of 1917 in the light of newly ...
Russian Civil War: The Czecho-Slovak Legions began its revolt against the Bolshevik government. 28 May: Armenia and Azerbaijan declared their mutual independence. 8 June: Russian Civil War: An anti-Bolshevik government, the Committee of Members of the Constituent Assembly, was established in Samara under the protection of the Czecho-Slovak ...
Red Guard unit of the Vulkan factory in Petrograd, October 1917 Bolshevik (1920) by Boris Kustodiev The New York Times headline from 9 November 1917. The October Revolution, [b] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [c] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [4] [5] Bolshevik coup, [5] or Bolshevik revolution, [6] [7] was a revolution in Russia led by Vladimir Lenin's ...
The following is a timeline of the events of World War I from 1917 to 1918. Withdrawal and the Russian Revolution begins (March–November 1917) By the end of 1916 ...
February 3 – Alexey Abaza, Russian admiral and politician (b. 1853) March 14 – Robert Viren, Imperial Russian Navy admiral (b. 1857) May 27 – Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev, Imperial Russian Navy admiral and politician (b. 1843) July 15 – Andrey Selivanov, Russian general and politician (b. 1847) September 9 – Boris Stürmer, Russian ...
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 place ...
A timeline of some key events: 1945-1948 — Japan’s colonial rule of the Korean Peninsula ends with Tokyo’s World War II defeat in 1945 but the peninsula is eventually divided into a Soviet ...
History of the Russian Revolution is a three-volume book by Leon Trotsky on the Russian Revolution of 1917. The first volume is dedicated to the political history of the February Revolution and the October Revolution, to explain the relations between these two events.