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The novel is in three parts. The first part, "A Russian Fairy Tale", deliberately evokes the atmosphere of Arthur Ransome's Old Peter's Russian Tales. It is a fairy-tale account of the circumstances leading to the Russian Revolution, featuring the poor woodcutter, the orphaned children, the romantic but oblivious Royal family, the mad monk, the sleeping bear and the two conspirators in the wood.
The Twelve (Russian: Двена́дцать, romanized: Dvenádtsat) is a controversial long poem by Aleksandr Blok. Written early in 1918, the poem was one of the first poetic responses to the October Revolution of 1917.
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 ]
State of Revolution is a two act play by Robert Bolt, written in 1977. [1] It deals with the Russian Revolution of 1917 and Civil War, the rise to power of Vladimir Lenin, and the struggles of his chief lieutenants – namely Joseph Stalin and Leon Trotsky – to gain power under Lenin in the chaos of the Revolution.
Part 1, August 1914 narrates the disastrous opening of World War I from a Russian perspective. Solzhenitsyn says he conceived the idea in 1938, then in 1945 gathered notes for Part 1 in the weeks when he led a Red Army unit into the same Eastern Prussia region where much of the novel takes place, but not until early 1969 did he start writing the novel.
The "Worker's Marseillaise" [a] is a Russian revolutionary song named after "La Marseillaise", the current national anthem of France.It is based on a poem of Pyotr Lavrov, first published on 1 July 1875 in London as "A New Song".
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[9] [10] Project director Mitchell Stephens explains the judges' decision: Perhaps the most controversial work on our list is the seventh, John Reed's book, "Ten Days That Shook the World", reporting on the October revolution in Russia in 1917. Yes, as conservative critics have noted, Reed was a partisan. Yes, historians would do better.