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1917–1923: Russian Revolution. ... On December 18, 1800, ... A revolutionary movement was born during the reign of Alexander I.
The Decembrist Revolt (Russian: Восстание декабристов, romanized: Vosstaniye dekabristov, lit. 'Uprising of the Decembrists') was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire.
The city in late imperial Russia (Indiana Univ Press, 1986) Henderson, William Otto. Industrial Revolution on the Continent: Germany, France, Russia 1800–1914 (Routledge, 2013) Jelavich, Barbara. St. Petersburg and Moscow: Tsarist and Soviet foreign policy, 1814–1974 (Indiana University Press, 1974) LeDonne, John P.
Events from the year 1800 in Russia. Incumbents. Monarch – Paul I; Events. Chevalier Guard Regiment founded; April 2 - Treaty of Constantinople (1800)
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 ...
The Russian masses were so aroused over the massacre that a general strike was declared demanding a democratic republic. This marked the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Soviets (councils of workers) appeared in most cities to direct revolutionary activity. [163]
Leon Trotsky said that the goal of socialism in Russia would not be realized without the success of the world revolution. A revolutionary wave caused by the Russian Revolution lasted until 1923, but despite initial hopes for success in the German Revolution of 1918–19, the short-lived Hungarian Soviet Republic, and others like it, only the ...
As the last remaining absolute monarchy in Europe, the empire saw rapid political radicalization and the growing popularity of revolutionary ideas such as communism. [12] After the Russian Revolution of 1905, Nicholas II authorized the creation of a national parliament, the State Duma, although he still retained absolute political power.