Enter Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (born Ulyanov) and his Bolshevik party, which stormed and vandalized the Winter Palace in Petrograd—an act that would go down in history under the name of the “October ...

Less than five years before the start of the Irish Civil War, the fratricidal terror that followed Russia’s October 1917 ...

“Russia had to have revolution ... became the staging ground of the October Revolution. In October 1917 Trotsky, the chairman of the Petrograd Soviet, based here, mobilized Red Guards ...

In the latest of our series on great revolutions, Dominic Alexander looks at how the Russian socialists had to confront the ...

The workers’ revolution had begun and with it the transformation of world history, as Dominic Alexander shows The government and the military command were alarmed at the huge rallies in support of the ...

Yesterday marked the ninety-fifth anniversary of Vladimir Mayakovsky’s suicide. It is particularly significant today that World War I played such a key role in shaping him. This war led to the ...

Russia was ruled by Tsars who had ultimate ... and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events, effects The period after the ...

withdrawing Russia from the First World War, ceding much of the former territory of the Russian Empire Late March 1918 - October 1922 The Russian Civil War rages until the Bolsheviks consolidate power ...

Their leaders were experienced military commanders They controlled huge areas of Russia They had the Bolsheviks ... the establishment and survival of the revolution and a communist Russia.