1905 Revolution — Causes and events The 1905 ... events and effects The dire social conditions of the Russian people, rural and urban, and unpopularity of the Tsar's regime forced him to ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ... that the world must endure on the road to communism. According to Lenin, "Monopoly is ...

The Russian people had wanted revolution. It had to come. What they meant by revolution was the overthrow of an inept and suffocating tyranny and its substitution by some more liberal system.

Learn about the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, the Bolsheviks, communism, the notorious Rasputin, rumors of cannibalism and acute poverty during the ...

Dominic Alexander concludes our series on the great revolutions by looking at the aftermath of the Russian revolution and ...

Seven decades of communism are about to begin ... central to the whole story, revolution in Russia. The Russian revolutionaries created a state where politics were to be determined exclusively ...

One must live in Russia to-day, amid the atmosphere of torment, disgust, and disillusionment that pervades sex relations, the chaos, uncertainty, and tragedy that hover over the Russian family ...

Red flag-draped rallies in Moscow marked the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution on Tuesday. But despite the demonstrations, the crimes of the past and faded memories have made some ...

Casey inverts the logic of history’s grand narratives and opts instead to illuminate the revolution and its consequences through small stories. The radical promise of Russian communism ...