When he penned his eyewitness account of the 1917 Russian Revolution, American journalist John Reed famously titled it Ten ...

The Russia of the Tsars was one of history's most terrible dictatorships. Yet it was the setting for a revolution in which millions of people made history. In a matter of one week, the actions of ...

This is the metadata section. Skip to content viewer section. This paper uses modern econometric approaches to program evaluation with one treated unit to predict how Russia could have developed ...

“The revolution offered Russia’s Jews many opportunities ... historians call a dress rehearsal for the Holocaust. A Jew in 1917 had two choices: revolution or exile.” During the Holocaust ...

Although for contemporaries the February Revolution appeared to be a ... By the end of February 1917 several factors in Russia had coalesced. They exacerbated an already agitated atmosphere ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

The assassination of these two revolutionary leaders was the political response of the German (and world) bourgeoisie to the Russian Revolution. The ruling classes had concluded from 1917 that the ...

This year, Russia marks the 100th anniversary of the revolution that overthrew Romanovs and put an end monarchy. RBTH visited some key sites of the 1917 revolution in search of people who would ...

April 4, 1917 Lenin publishes his April Theses condemning the Provisional Government for its incapacity to call an end to the "imperialist" war that Russia found itself in and calls for further ...

The events of 1917 changed the course of Russian, and indeed world ... cities have endured almost unchanged through a century of revolution and the fall, rise, and fall of empire.

In 1917, as Lenin’s Bolshevists seized power in Russia and set about creating a communist regime, there was a genuine fear that revolution could come to Britain. Throughout the year industrial ...