Unsurprisingly Lenin’s call for “all power to the Soviets” ended up being something entirely different: all power went to the ...

The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events ...

Six months later the deed was done, but not before Lenin himself had been driven into hiding to escape from Peter and Paul. How was it done? What was it all about? The October revolution was ...

Enter Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (born Ulyanov) and his Bolshevik party, which stormed and vandalized the Winter Palace in Petrograd—an act that would go down in history under the name of the “October ...

We met with success in the October Revolution, but the October Revolution ... “Too often has it happened,” wrote Lenin in July 1917, “that, when history has taken a sharp turn, even ...

These three men are guarding a side road leading to the Smolny Institute, which had become Lenin's headquarters after the October Revolution. Lenin held power, but his promise of peace with ...

On 25 October 1917, Lenin led his leftist revolutionaries in a successful revolt against the ineffective provisional government, an event known as the October Revolution. It was also known as Red ...

Lenin returned to Russia in April and ... Serious historical research has refuted claims that the October Revolution was a conspiratorial “putsch” undertaken by the Bolsheviks without mass ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Alexander Dugin, a Russian far-right philosopher, has pushed forward the debate to bury Lenin's body to make way for Putin's.

Security of the Tsarist state before 1905 Causes of the 1905 Revolution Attempts to strengthen Tsarism, 1905-1914 Reasons for the February Revolution, 1917 Reasons for the victory of the Reds in ...