The October Revolution was one of the key events of the greater russian revolutionand the Russian cruiser Dawn signaled his departure. Built in the late 1800s, Dawn remains in service with the Russian Navy, but for ceremonial purposes. Some considered the ship obsolete when it was introduced, but it managedRead More →
On January 22, 1905, the first Russian Revolution began when 500 peaceful protesters were massacred by Tsarist troops. Led by a Russian Orthodox priest, 150,000 people – completely unarmed – took to the wintry streets of St Petersburg to present their grievances to Tsar Nicholas II, demanding things like workingRead More →
Sapphire and diamond jewelry that was smuggled out of Russia during the 1917 revolution were auctioned off for a whopping $ 879,000 (£ 654,765). The very luxurious lot was auctioned at Sotheby’s in Geneva today, and included a sapphire and diamond brooch and matching ear clips that had previously belongedRead More →
A word of warning to anyone visiting Reykjavik: do not walk around the Icelandic capital in the company of artist Ragnar Kjartansson. Most people stop by the local luminary Kjartansson, who is unfailingly kind to all passers-by. Just over 360,000 people live on the tight-knit Nordic Island and such encountersRead More →
The end, when it came, was relatively bloodless after the carnage that had preceded it and what was to follow. A blank shot from the Aurora battle cruiser on the Neva River signaled the departure. Bolshevik soldiers, the Red Guards, had already taken control of key places in Petrograd, includingRead More →
ST. PAUL – Once upon a time in the NHL, the Russian Revolution was all the rage. This was especially true in the ’90s. You had the Fab Five – Sergei Fedorov, Igor Larionov, Vladimir Konstantinov, Slava Kozlov and Slava Fetisov – who turned the Detroit Red Wings into aRead More →
How exactly does a newspaper editor win a Nobel Peace Prize and live to tell the story? First, you survive a war, and then you break your own news to everyone with a headline like this, along with a photo of the newsroom on the newspaper’s website: “The whole NovayaRead More →
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a social uprising that unfolded in two phases, the first in February and the other in October. The day after the Revolution was the bloody Russian Civil War with an estimated death toll of between 5 and 12 million people. The working class andRead More →
Russia’s population decline more than doubled in 2020, the latest sign of the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on the country, according to updated figures from the Russian Federal Statistics Agency seen by The Moscow Times. Russia’s population stood at 146.05 million as of January 1, 2021, compared to 146.75Read More →
Seeing the attempted overthrow of our government on January 6, I was appalled at the parallels to the Russian Revolution of February 1917. I taught Russian and Soviet history in the Russian Studies and International Relations programs in Bucknell for 20 years and I was surprised to see the parallelsRead More →
VLADIMIR Putin is terrified of being killed like Libyan tyrant Gaddafi in a revolution as protests sweep across Russia over Alexi Navalny’s imprisonment, a prominent expert said. Putin’s enemy Yuri Felshtinsky told Sun Online that the ongoing unrest convinced the Kremlin strongman that more crackdown and killings of opponents wereRead More →
During his annual New Year’s address to the nation, Russian President Vladimir Putin presented the 75th anniversary of the Allies’ victory over Nazi Germany as the country’s main event in 2020. The celebrations were supposed to culminate with a parade. pompous military in Red Square and the opening of aRead More →
On this day in history, March 8, 1917, the first phase of the Russian Revolution began in present-day St. Petersburg. The March Revolution (sometimes referred to as the February Revolution due to the country’s Julian calendar) saw many protests against the Tsarist regime due to the lack of food. ForRead More →
Contents When was the Russian Revolution? Russian Revolution of 1905 Nicholas II Rasputin and the Tsarina February Revolution bolshevik revolution Russian Civil War Impact of the Russian Revolution Sources PHOTO GALLERIES The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the 20th century. The violentRead More →
We know that communism has led to some of the worst crimes against humanity. Joseph Stalin and Mao Zedong were monsters, killing millions of their own countrymen. But these were not aberrations. Not many people know that the world’s first communist revolution in Russia, which began exactly 101 years ago,Read More →
Getty Images A boy in Moscow waves a Communist flag at a rally to mark the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 revolution This month the world remembers the 100 years since the Russian revolutions of 1917. The revolutions in Russia are incredibly important historical events. They marked the startRead More →
CENTENARY OF THE OCTOBER REVOLUTION Mon, 23 Oct 2017 12:00 AM Last update on: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 1:06 PM Bolshevik (1920), by Boris Koustodiev “> Bolshevik (1920), by Boris Koustodiev On November 2, 1977, as the sixtieth anniversary of the Russian Revolution approached, French historian Georges Haupt delivered aRead More →
The muted commemorations of the centenary of the Bolshevik revolution in Russia on November 7 have been widely interpreted internationally as a political tactic by an authoritarian regime that is wary of dissent. President Vladimir Putin’s cultural envoy told the New York Times earlier this year that the Kremlin cannotRead More →
This year marks the centenary of the Russian Revolution. This event has often been reduced to the urban upheaval that gripped Petrograd (Saint Petersburg) throughout 1917 and culminated with the Bolsheviks seizing power in October. The Soviet Union traced its legitimacy back to this event, and many other aspiring revolutionariesRead More →
November 7, the anniversary of the Great October Socialist Revolution, was once the most important holiday on the Soviet calendar – bigger than May 1 and even May 9, Victory Day. The anniversary brought parades, choirs and fireworks. Yet now, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary, there is noRead More →
Wives of soldiers demand increased rations during a demonstration along Nevsky Prospekt after the observance of International Women’s Day, February 23, 1917. (Photo by K. Bulla. Courtesy of Central Archives of the State of Kino-Photo-Phono documents, St. Petersburg.) The centenary of the Russian revolution November 7, 2017 marks the 100thRead More →
(JTA) — Of all the many charged issues related to the bloody history of the Jews in the former Soviet Union, none is as sensitive today in this part of the world as their role in the 1917 revolution that brought the communists in power. The outsized prevalence of JewsRead More →
“The main operations began at 2 a.m.,” wrote Leon Trotsky in his History of the Russian Revolution. “Bolshevik groups occupied the railway stations, the lighting station, the military and food warehouses, the water systems, the Palace bridge, the telephone exchange, the state bank, the main printing works, the telegraph andRead More →
Should the Russian Revolution be remembered as one of the great turning points in history or should it be “relegated to the dustbin of history” since the new nation it created, the Soviet Union , no longer exists ? This month is the 100th anniversary of the October Revolution (whichRead More →
‘Freedom in capitalist society still remains much the same as in the ancient Greek republics: freedom for slave owners. – Vladimir Lenin One hundred years ago, the 24 October 1917 (November in today’s calendar), the disgruntled peasants, working class and soldiers of Russia overthrew the centuries-old system of Tsarist rule.Read 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 →
August 14, 2017 August 14, 2017 A century ago this year, Russia was undergoing its Marxist revolution, an attempt to create a fairer nation that instead led to one of the most brutal tyrannies of all time. So what happened? This is a debate that is once again becoming importantRead More →