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Soldiers blocking Narva Gate on Bloody Sunday. The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a major factor contributing to the cause of the Revolutions of 1917. The events of Bloody Sunday triggered nationwide protests and soldier mutinies. A council of workers called the St. Petersburg Soviet was created in this chaos. [4]
The October Revolution, [a] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [b] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [5] [6] Bolshevik coup, [6] or Bolshevik revolution, [7] [8] was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923. It was the ...
The Bolsheviks (Russian: большевики, bolsheviki; from большинство, bolshinstvo, 'majority'), [a] led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks [b] at the Second Party Congress in 1903. The Bolshevik party, formally established in ...
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 ...
Allied intervention. 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.
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 Russian Revolution was a series of uprisings that led to the fall of the Russian Empire, the end of Russian involvement in the First World War (1914-1918), the Russian Civil War (1917-1923), and the establishment of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
The main directions of Russian philosophy include: Westernism and liberalism – mid–19th century; Slavophilism and pochvennichestvo – mid–19th century; Narodnichestvo – second half of the 19th century; Nihilism – second half of the 19th century; Anarchism – second half of the 19th century;