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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and ... (dvoyevlastiye) was the result less of the actions or attitudes of the leaders of these two institutions than ...
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 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.
There are numerous, conflicting accounts on the outcome of the November–December 1917 election to the All-Russian Constituent Assembly.The Constituent Assembly election, which took place in the midst of the First World War and the October Revolution, was the largest exercise of universal suffrage in the history of mankind until that date.
The United States responded to the Russian Revolution of 1917 by participating in the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War with the Allies of World War I in support of the White movement, in seeking to overthrow the Bolsheviks. [1] The United States withheld diplomatic recognition of the Soviet Union until 1933. [2]
Many accounts on the election result originate from N. V. Svyatitsky's account, who was himself elected as an SR deputy to the Constituent Assembly. [55] 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).
The February Revolution of 1917 resulted in the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II of Russia. As a result, the Russian Provisional Government formed by a coalition of centrist parties [23] [24] was established, and soviets, elected councils of workers, soldiers, and peasants, were organized throughout the country, leading to a situation of dual ...
The Russian Revolution of 1905, [a] also known as the First Russian Revolution, [b] was a revolution in the Russian Empire that began on 22 January 1905 with a wave of civil unrest across the empire and ultimately led to the establishment of a constitutional monarchy under the Russian Constitution of 1906.