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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a civil war .
1917–1923: Russian Revolution. ... This is a timeline of Russian history, ... The Soviet atomic bomb project culminated in a successful test detonation.
The February Revolution (Russian: Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution [a] and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup [3] [4] [b] was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took place in ...
July 15 – Andrey Selivanov, Russian general and politician (b. 1847) September 9 – Boris Stürmer, Russian prime minister (b. 1848) December 8 – Mendele Mocher Sforim, Russian Yiddish and Hebrew writer (b. 1836) December 24 – Ivan Goremykin, Russian prime minister (b. 1839) Wladimir Burliuk, Ukrainian artist (b. 1886)
The Political parties of Russia in 1917 were the aggregate of the main political parties and organizations that existed in Russia in 1917. Immediately after the February Revolution, the defeat of the right–wing monarchist parties and political groups takes place, the struggle between the socialist parties (Socialist Revolutionaries, Mensheviks, Bolsheviks) and liberals (Constitutional ...
Passage Through Armageddon: The Russians in War and Revolution, 1914–1918 (1986) online; Lewin, Moshe. Russian Peasants and Soviet Power. (Northwestern University Press, 1968) McCauley, Martin. The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union (2007), 522 pages. Millar, James R. ed. Encyclopedia of Russian History (4 vol, 2004), 1700pp; 1500 articles by ...
History of the Russian Revolution is a three-volume book by Leon Trotsky on the Russian Revolution of 1917. The first volume is dedicated to the political history of the February Revolution and the October Revolution, to explain the relations between these two events. The book was initially published in Germany in 1930.
The Establishment of Soviet power in Russia (in Soviet historiography, «Triumphal Procession of Soviet Power») was the process of establishing Soviet power throughout the territory of the former Russian Empire, with the exception of areas occupied by the troops of the Central Powers, following the seizure of power by Bolsheviks in Petrograd on 7 November 1917 [O.S. 25 October], and in mostly ...