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The Kornilov affair, or the Kornilov putsch, was an attempted military coup d'état by the commander-in-chief of the Russian Army, General Lavr Kornilov, from 10 to 13 September 1917 (O.S., 28–31 August), against the Russian Provisional Government headed by Aleksander Kerensky and the Petrograd Soviet of Soldiers' and Workers' Deputies. [1]
Lenin's Russia became the first country to legalize first-trimester abortion on demand. [199] The regime was militantly atheist, seeking to dismantle organized religion. [200] In January 1918, the government decreed the separation of church and state and banned religious instruction in schools. [201]
Kornilov was killed in the fighting on 13 April, and Denikin took over command. Fighting off its pursuers without respite, the army succeeded in breaking its way through back towards the Don by May, where the Cossack uprising against the Bolsheviks had started. [109] The Baku Soviet Commune was established on 13 April.
This is a list of speeches of Vladimir Lenin, the founder and leader of both Soviet Russia (1917–1924) and Soviet Union (1922–1924). Lenin, speaking for the public in 1919 This article is part of
In 1914, at the start of World War I, Kornilov was appointed commander of the 48th Infantry Division, which saw combat in Galicia and the Carpathians. In 1915, he was promoted to the rank of major general. During heavy fighting, he was captured by the Austrians in April 1915, when his division became isolated from the rest of the Russian forces.
Manifestation of war veterans and invalids in Petrograd on 17 April 1917 against Lenin's arrival. The April Theses (Russian: апрельские тезисы, transliteration: aprel'skie tezisy) were a series of ten directives issued by the Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin upon his April 1917 return to Petrograd from his exile in Switzerland via Germany and Finland.
A former Putin ally and ex-convict whose forces have fought the bloodiest battles of the 16-month war in Ukraine, Prigozhin said his decision to advance on Moscow was intended to remove corrupt ...
The letter condemned Russia's participation in World War I, criticizing the country's enduring expansionist ambitions. It also sought to confine Russia's focus mostly to intra-national issues. The letter was released at a time of public turmoil and disenfranchisement with the Provisional Government.