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23 February. February Revolution: A series of demonstrations were held, demanding the end of the Russian autocracy and the end of Russian participation in World War I. 25 February. February Revolution: A battalion of soldiers was sent to Petrograd to end the uprising.
e. Ferdinand Emmanuel Edralin Marcos Sr.[c](September 11, 1917 – September 28, 1989) was a Filipino politician, dictator[7][8][9]and kleptocrat[10][11][12]who served as the tenth president of the Philippinesfrom 1965 to 1986. Marcos ruled the country under martial law from 1972 to 1981,[13]and with vastly expanded powers under the 1973 ...
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 in ...
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 ...
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, [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 ...
e. This timeline of the presidency of Ferdinand Marcos in the Philippines covers three periods of Philippine history in which Marcos wielded political control. First, it covers the period of Marcos' first two terms—1965 to 1969 and 1969 to 1972—under the 1935 Constitution, as well as the antecedent events which brought Marcos to political ...
Russian Civil War. The Russian Civil War[a] was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. It resulted in the formation of the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet ...
1040. ISBN. 0-913460-83-4. 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. The book was initially published in Germany in 1930.