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The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution in early 1917, in the midst of World War I. With the German Empire dealing major defeats on the war front, and increasing logistical problems in the rear causing shortages of bread and grain, the Russian Army was steadily losing morale, with large scale mutiny looming. [ 1 ]
Although chess had been a game of the bourgeoisie and upper classes before the Russian Revolution, its popularity among Bolshevik leaders, including Vladimir Lenin, contributed to it being supported by state leaders in the USSR as a national pastime. A keen sportsman, Lenin spent much of his free time outdoors or playing chess.
Pages in category "Video games set in Russia" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 223 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
In spite of many attempts by the Russian government to restrict card games, many Russians, especially the Russian nobility, played cards on a significant scale during the 18th century. Before the 19th century, practically all playing cards were imported from Western and Central Europe, and from 1765 all imported cards had to be stamped and high ...
Red Heat (video game) Red Orchestra 2: Heroes of Stalingrad; Red Skies Over Europe; Rising Storm (video game) Road to Moscow; Rocky Balboa (video game) Rocky Legends; Rogue Warrior (video game) Rush'n Attack; Russia: The Great War in the East 1941–1945
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 ...
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 ...
Pages in category "Video games set in the Russian Empire" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A.