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Précis of Russian Revolution Archived 27 December 2012 at the Wayback Machine—A summary of the key events and factors of the 1917 Russian Revolution. Kevin Murphy's Isaac and Tamara Deutscher Memorial Prize lecture "Can we Write the History of the Russian Revolutionæ , which examines historical accounts of 1917 in the light of newly ...
Since most workers were fresh off the farm and totally uneducated, the main impetus of revolution came from middle-class college graduates frustrated at the inefficiency of Russian society. Thus (with heavy foreign investment and technical assistance), Russia managed to achieve at least a veneer of industrialization by 1914.
The main source for the results table is Radkey (1989), who is used as reference for district-wise results unless specified otherwise. List numbers and names are largely taken from the Soviet historian L. M. Spirin's work. [2] Notably, one list has been included that appears in Radkey but not in Spirin (the Molokan list in Taurida, with 885 votes).
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, [b] also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution [c] (in Soviet historiography), October coup, [4] [5] Bolshevik coup, [5] or Bolshevik revolution, [6] [7] was the second of two revolutions in Russia in 1917.
The Russian Revolution and civil war, 1917–1921: An annotated bibliography. Routledge.) Political Upheaval: Despite government efforts to maintain stability, political unrest continued to escalate, with the formation of illegal revolutionary organizations and increased public demonstrations.
His article was included in the one-year anniversary symposium of the Russian Revolution organized by the SR party (Moscow, Zemlya i Volya Publishers, 1918). Lenin (1919) describes Svyatitsky's account as extremely interesting. It presented results from 54 electoral districts, covering most of European Russia and Siberia.
Under the leadership of Russian communist Vladimir Lenin, the Bolshevik Party seized power in the Russian Republic during a coup known as the October Revolution. Overthrowing the pre-existing Provisional Government , the Bolsheviks established a new administration, the first Council of People's Commissars (see article " Lenin's First and Second ...
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was already a failure according to its original aim, which was to act as an inspiration for a world revolution. [9] As a result, the initial anti-statist posture and the active campaigning for direct democracy was replaced with dictatorship. [9]