Eighty-five years ago, in the early morning hours of May 24, 1940, an attempt was made to assassinate Leon Trotsky, the great ...

Downling. Only military conflicts that occurred after the Russian Revolution of 1917, and are considered significant events in the timeline of Russian military history, were included.

The year is 1917. Millions of Russians had been either killed or wounded. The Russian people were angry at Tsar Nicholas II for getting Russia into the war. Chief Justice Roberts temporarily halts ...

1917, briskly, with brio and characteristically sharp insight. Thus, the liberal February revolution that overthrew the czar is generally seen as a relatively ... If you enjoyed this article ...

“It was such a blow that was dealt to Russia in 1917 when the country was fighting ... strife that lost Russia the war and led to revolution,” noted Jeet Heer in the Nation.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Journalist and author Will Englund discussed the political and economic situation in Russia prior to the 1917 Russian Revolution. Journalist and ...

The Russian bourgeoisie was dependent on maintaining a firm alliance with the landowning ruling class, an alliance which withstood the first revolution of 1917, but was crushed by the Bolshevik ...

Not less vital is General Gourko’s history of the Russian Revolution, with strongly drawn and convincing pictures of the leaders of the ‘official’ Duma revolution, and also of the Soviet ...

Carr, The Bolshevik Revolution 1917–1923 ... Ordzhonikidze, Gregory (Sergo) (1886—1937) Old Georgian Bolshevik; During the Russian Civil War of 1917–23 Ordzhonikidze fought against the anti-Bolshevik ...

Photo: 12th March 1917: Barricades across a street in St Petersburg, as a red flag floats above the cannons, during the Russian Revolution. (Photo by Hulton Archive/Getty Images) ...