The Provisional Government developed a power sharing agreement with the Petrograd soviet (a city council) that rendered it ineffective at providing basic services and law enforcement. The tsarist ...

The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies played a central role. It was created in the first days of the revolution and had big influence among the lower classes of society.

When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...

From the moment when we, as the Petrograd Soviet, invalidated Kerensky’s order transferring two-thirds of the garrison to the front, we had actually entered a state of armed insurrection.

Today the Russian Orthodox Church celebrates the memory of one of the early stars in the pleiades of new martyrs and confessors of the Communist yoke, Metropolitan Benjamin (Kazansky) of Petrograd and ...

A post-Stalin reorganization created the KGB formula in 1954. Since the Soviet government moved to Moscow from Petrograd in 1918 it has been headquartered not far from the Kremlin in a complex of ...

In Russia, the February Revolution (known as such because of Russia’s use of the Julian calendar) begins on March 8, 1917 ...

Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA ... "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic". Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) On July 10, 1925 ...