In February the Russian monarchy collapsed ... not live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917.

[4] The Bolsheviks were convinced that the fate of the Russian Revolution depended upon the extension of the revolution beyond the borders of Soviet Russia. This position was held by the finest ...

However, only about 20,000 found their way into America during the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 up through World War II. World War I, the Russian Revolution, and then the ...

The Bolshevik Party in crisis was nothing but ... which alone could sustain the Russian revolution, was at hand. He was wrong.

The events of 1917 changed the course of Russian ... massive opposition to Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Lenin speaking in central Moscow. By 1918, the revolution had morphed into a civil war between ...

A Russian resistance figurehead has sounded the ... Roman Popkov, aged 45, once helmed the radical National Bolshevik Party ...

The Russian Civil War raged from ... would destroy all the achievements of the Revolution, break up the Soviets and bring back the old system. The Bolsheviks portrayed themselves as a patriotic ...

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 ...

The five-hour battle between 4,000 Russian Red Guard soldiers and 500-600 Kyiv cadets and Free Cossacks helped delay the Bolshevik offensive on Kyiv and allowed Ukraine to sign the Brest Peace Treaty.

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 ...

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 ...

Against the drive and ruthless energy of the Bolsheviks ... survival of the revolution and a communist Russia. Many feared that foreign intervention would bring an end to Russian independence ...