Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

I got really into fiddling with the party makeup of the Petrograd Soviet and someone went and convened a government without me. It's great fun if you're the same kind of nerd I am, ...

He showed that the four resolutions of the Kronstadt Soviet, adopted on 16, 21, 24 and 25 May, [3] did not contradict each other, and were not directed against [4] the Provisional Government, but ...

At long last, the draft minutes of the proceedings of the Petrograd Soviet for the period 27 February to 31 March 1917 have been made readily available to the scholarly public, which is invited by ...

The Menshevik leaders in the Petrograd Soviet are working to prop up the Provisional Government. On May 4, after having demanded an “explanation” for Miliukov’s note, ...

The majority of the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet had no intention of taking power. Instead, they wanted the Duma leaders to form a government in line with the doctrine laid down by Karl Marx: ...

The month before in Petrograd, about 100 miles to the northeast, the Bolsheviks had celebrated the second anniversary of the Soviet revolution with lengthy processions with red banners and brass ...

In Petrograd I had friends, possessions, money, servants, and heart’s ease but for my husband’s death. I could look forward to declining years of comfortable leisure.

There was much excitement in Petrograd all through the month of November. Numerous rumours were afloat about strikes, arrests, and dashes between workers and soldiery. It was difficult to get at the ...

Imperial Russia died as quietly as did Soviet Russia three-quarters of a century later, but as 1917 dawned, every foreigner in Petrograd knew that massive upheaval was on the way.

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Belknap/Harvard University Press, October 2017, 368 pages Around midnight on April 16 ...