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The Russian Revolution was inaugurated with the February Revolution in early 1917, in the midst of World War I. With the German Empire dealing major defeats on the war front, and increasing logistical problems in the rear causing shortages of bread and grain, the Russian Army was steadily losing morale, with large scale mutiny looming. [ 1 ]
1917–1923: Russian Revolution. ... This is a timeline of Russian history, ... The Soviet atomic bomb project culminated in a successful test detonation.
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 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 ...
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 ...
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.
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 ...
The Russian Provisional Government [a] was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II on 2 March, O.S. [15 March 1917, N.S.], during the February Revolution. [1]