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The Russian Revolution was a period of political and social change in Russia, starting in 1917. This period saw Russia abolish its monarchy and adopt a socialist form of government following two successive revolutions and a bloody civil war. The Russian Revolution can also be seen as the precursor for the other European revolutions that ...
Lev Davidovich Bronstein[ b ] (7 November [ O.S. 26 October] 1879 – 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, [ c ] was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist. He was a central figure in the 1905 Revolution, [ 3 ] October Revolution, Russian Civil War, and establishment of the Soviet Union.
The Decembrist Revolt ( Russian: Восстание декабристов, romanized : Vosstaniye dekabristov, lit. 'Uprising of the Decembrists') was a failed coup d'état led by liberal military and political dissidents against the Russian Empire. It took place in Saint Petersburg on 26 December [ O.S. 14 December] 1825, following the sudden ...
The Bolshevik party, formally established in 1912, seized power in Russia in the October Revolution of 1917, and was later renamed the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party, and Communist Party of the Soviet Union. The party's ideology, based on Leninist and later Marxist–Leninist principles, is known as Bolshevism .
He was a member of the “Red Cross of the Narodnaia Volia,” and organized the supply of revolutionary literature to Russia. In 1905, during the first Russian revolution, he made a tour of America, lecturing on the subject and collecting funds for the struggle against the Imperial regime. In 1907 he returned to Russia.
The Russian Revolution of 1905, [ c] also known as the First Russian Revolution, [ d] began on 22 January 1905. A wave of mass political and social unrest then began to spread across the vast areas of the Russian Empire. The unrest was directed primarily against the Tsar, the nobility, and the ruling class. It included worker strikes, peasant ...
The February Revolution ( Russian: Февральская революция ), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution[ note 1] and sometimes as the March Revolution or February Coup[ 3][ 4][ a] was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917. The main events of the revolution took ...
The Russian communist revolutionary and politician Vladimir Lenin began his active revolutionary activity in 1892, and continued till assuming power in the Russian Revolution of 1917. Following on from his early life, during which he had become devoted to the cause of revolution against the Tsarist regime in the Russian Empire and converted to ...