One hundred years ago, on November 7 (October 25 according to the Russian calendar), 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship. The world has never been the same since. Of all the legacies left in the wake of the revolution, the worst is aRead More →
On November 7, 1917 (October 25 on the Western calendar), the Bolsheviks in Russia launched the first successful communist revolution in history. A century later, the results are still not certain. That’s well into the hundreds of millions. It could reach a billion, if you count the lives cut shortRead More →
JThings were bad for Lenin 100 years ago. We are eight days away from the centenary of the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks, but just as he was about to strike, Lenin fell victim to one of the great scoops of the 20th century. After a tough committee meetingRead More →
My late father-in-law was a very human symbol of the effect of the Russian communist revolution. In his swaddling, his parents took him from Russia because, as grain merchants, they were the class enemy. They settled in Germany, only to flee in 1938 because, as Jews, they were the enemyRead More →
It has now been 100 years since the revolution that overthrew Russian Tsar Nicholas II. For Jews, the fall of Tsarist Russia meant a new relative freedom: the end of the settlement zone, which had prevented Jews from living in large cities, and the abolition of all other anti-Semitic laws,Read More →
It has been 100 years since revolution swept through Russia and we have dedicated The Anthill 18 to this defining moment in world history. We dive into its sensory story, learn about the people who tried to spread it across Europe, and we also talk to the grandson of oneRead More →
Exactly one hundred years ago today, on the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter Palace in Petrograd (now Saint Petersburg) was stormed. This event marked the start of the Great October Revolution, one of the most important political events of the 20th century that shaped the course of historyRead More →
“A lie repeated often enough becomes the truth.” Vladimir Lenin’s words still resonate 100 years after the start of the Russian Revolution in 1917. Belief in communism (socialism) was the lie first perpetrated by Karl Marx in the 19th century, culminating in the Bolshevik Revolution, from St Petersburg, Russia. KarlRead More →
In this year of the centenary of the Russian Revolution, this founding event of the 20th century is little recognized. And, for the most part, even the few books, TV specials, articles, and exhibits that acknowledge it are rife with misunderstanding and myth-making. Some of the most absurd claims aboutRead More →
Share this Item You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International License. One hundred years ago, the Russian Revolution overthrew the Russian Empire, ending nearly two centuries of monarchical rule. You may remember from history class that the upheaval came in two parts: the February RevolutionRead More →
President Vladimir Putin openly admits that economic sanctions “seriously harm Russia”. Imposed largely in response to the Kremlin’s illegal annexation of Crimea in 2014, Western sanctions have since become a mainstay of Russian foreign policy, perhaps even motivating the Kremlin’s interference in it. 2016 US presidential election on behalf ofRead More →
Lenin is exceptionally present. His larger-than-life iron statue dominates the lobby of the Deutsches Historisches Museum (German Historical Museum), catching the eye of photo-taking Chinese tourists. They seem to be more pleased with the revolutionary figure than their compatriot and Russian President Vladimir Putin often is. But again, the wholeRead More →
At the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan on March 12, 2016, a bird silhouetted by the sun sits on the hand of a statue of Vladimir Lenin, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution. | Dmitry Lovetsky/AP People’s World Series – The Centenary of the Russian Revolution November 7, 2017 marks theRead More →
The following article was presented at the conference “After the End of Revolution: Constitutional Order amid the Crisis of Democracy”, co-organized by the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute and the National Research University Higher School of Economics, the 1st and September 2, 2017, Moscow. For more details on the conference as wellRead More →