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  NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Russian revolution
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political and social upheavals in Russia, involving first the overthrow of the tsarist autocracy, and then the overthrow of the liberal and moderate-socialist Provisional Government, resulting in the establishment of Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party.
Russian Revolution: The Revolution of 1905 - The Revolution of 1905 The Russian Revolution of 1905 began in St. Petersburg on Jan. 22 (Jan. 9,...
The Russian revolutions of 1917 involved a series of uprisings by workers and peasants throughout the country and by soldiers, who were predominantly of peasant origin, in the Russian army.
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 Russian Revolution of 1917, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the ...
Russian Revolution of 1917, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the Soviet state that became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR)
The second revolution, which opened with the armed insurrection of October 24 and 25, organized by the Bolshevik Party against the Provisional Government, effected a change in all economic, political, and social relationships in Russian society; it is often designated the Bolshevik, or October, Revolution.
The immediate cause of the February Revolution of 1917 was the collapse of the czarist regime under the gigantic strain of World War I. The underlying cause was the backward economic condition of the country, which made it unable to sustain the war effort against powerful, industrialized Germany.
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  The Millenial Files - A Russian Revolution, 1917   (Site not responding. Last check: )
The first, or April Revolution, took place one evening in April, 1917; on that night, the Imperial Russian Empire, the autocratic and orthodox Russian monarchy known as Tsarism "simply ceased to exist." As revolutions go, this was a rather bloodless one; the autocracy had few supporters willing to shed their blood to preserve it.
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was not a simple changing of the guard, a palace coup d’etat, this group of rulers for that group of rulers.
The makers of the revolution were the Russian people, for only the people can overthrow that in which they have always believed, not a small number of armed and dedicated radicals.
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  Russian Revolutions of 1917 - MSN Encarta
The Russian revolutions of 1917 involved a series of uprisings by workers and peasants throughout the country and by soldiers, who were predominantly of peasant origin, in the Russian army.
The second revolution led to the rise of the modern Communist movement and to the transformation of the Russian Empire into what became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
The overthrow of the Russian monarch, Emperor Nicholas II, and the ruling Romanov dynasty took place after an uprising that lasted from February 23 to 27, 1917, according to the Julian calendar then used in Russia, or March 8 to 12 according to the Gregorian calendar.
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 SparkNotes: The Russian Revolution (1917–1918): Summary of Events
The February Revolution, which removed Tsar Nicholas II from power, developed spontaneously out of a series of increasingly violent demonstrations and riots on the streets of Petrograd (present-day St. Petersburg), during a time when the tsar was away from the capital visiting troops on the World War I front.
Though the February Revolution was a popular uprising, it did not necessarily express the wishes of the majority of the Russian population, as the event was primarily limited to the city of Petrograd.
However, most of those who took power after the February Revolution, in the provisional government (the temporary government that replaced the tsar) and in the Petrograd Soviet (an influential local council representing workers and soldiers in Petrograd), generally favored rule that was at least partially democratic.
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 Compare the 1905 & 1917 Russian Revolutions
Revolutions, although suppressed, continued from time to time until two very important revolutions, one in 1905 and the other in 1917.
At this point, the revolution took a new turn unlike anything that happened during the revolution of 1905—the Duma set up a Provisional Government to rule the country, and the troops and strikers followed suit, each creating their own soviet (a local, popularly elected council or governing body) to replace the czar's rule.
Up until this revolution many political party leaders had been in exile, but after the March Revolution in 1917 many of them returned and began to organize their parties.
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Russian socialists and their relationship to the war played a key role in setting the stage for revolution in Russia.
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 Russian Revolution. The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition. 2001-05
The revolution was the culmination of a long period of repression and unrest.
The Russian Revolution of 1905 began in St. Petersburg on Jan. 22 (Jan. 9, O.S.) when troops fired on a defenseless crowd of workers, who, led by a priest, were marching to the Winter Palace to petition Czar Nicholas II.
By Mar., 1917 (the end of Feb., 1917, O.S., thus the name February Revolution), most of the workers in Petrograd (St. Petersburg) and Moscow were striking and rioting for higher food rations.
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 Russian Revolution of 1917 information - Search.com
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government (Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bolshevik party.
The February Revolution of 1917, which displaced the autocracy of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, the last effective Tsar of Russia, and sought to establish in its place a liberal republic.
Dissatisfaction with Russian autocracy culminated in the Bloody Sunday massacre, in which Russian workers saw their pleas for justice rejected as thousands of unarmed protestors were shot by the Tsar's troops.
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Funnels of russian cruiser "Aurora" which start the October 1917 Revolution in Saint-Petersbourg shooting the tsarist imperial palace the "Ermitage".
The Russian Revolution: In 1917, the Russian people started a rebellion that would change their nation forever.
Revolution and counter-revolution: the case of Finland in 1917-18.
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 Russian Revolution of 1917 Summary
The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a series of political events in Russia, which, after the elimination of the Russian autocracy system, and the Provisional Government(Duma), resulted in the establishment of the Soviet power under the control of the Bo...
Essay consists of a discussion of the Russian Revolution of 1917.
The long-term and short-term factors that led to the abdication of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia after 300 years of Romanov rule.
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 Russian revolution. Lenin in October 1917
On display here are the documents and materials from the Party's Sixth Congress (it took place in late July and early August 1917) whose decisions were directed toward the preparation of the working class and poorest peasants in Russia for an armed uprising, and for the victory of the socialist revolution.
In early October 1917 (between the 3rd and the 7th according to the old Calendar), V. Lenin, in make-up, returned illegally to Russia and rode on the tender of a railway engine from Finland to Petrograd.
Lenin's speech on October 26 (November 8), 1917 at the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets is portrayed in the painting by V.Serov.
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 The Russian Revolution of 1917
Trotsky understood that the completion of the democratic revolution in backward Russia was conceivable only as the dictatorship of the proletariat, leaning on the peasantry, and that the seizure of power by the working class in Russia would place on the order of the day not only the democratic, but also the socialist tasks.
The February Revolution was sparked by a mass desire both to be rid of the Romanov dynasty and to put an end to the war—but several months later the murderous war was still raging.
This prescient understanding was reinforced in the positive in October 1917 in Russia and tragically in the negative with the murders of Liebknecht and Luxemburg during the counterrevolutionary terror unleashed by the German Social Democrats following the Spartacus uprising in Berlin in January 1919.
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 February Revolution of 1917
On Russian ethnic territory the revolution was primarily a social one; on non-Russian territories it was mainly a national revolution.
In general the February Revolution was carried out in a more peaceful and organized way in Ukraine than in Russia.
Many massive rallies, demonstrations (photo: demonstration in Vinnytsia, 1917), congresses, and so on were staged without bloodshed.
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In 1917 the Russian workers created organs (Factory Committees and Soviets) that might have ensured the management of society by the workers themselves.
Russian Revolution of 1917, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the Soviet state that became known as the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR).
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 Russian Revolution of 1917 - Wikinfo
Template:History of Russia The Russian Revolution of 1917 was a political movement in Russia that climaxed in 1917 with the overthrow of the provisional government that had replaced the Russian Tsar system, and led to the establishment of the Soviet Union, which lasted until its collapse in 1991.
The first one was that of the February Revolution of 1917, which displaced the autocracy of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and sought to establish in its place a liberal republic.
The Russian Civil War, which broke out in 1918 shortly after the revolution, brought death and suffering to millions of people regardless of their political orientation.
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 Karl Kautsky: The Russian Revolution (1917)
The war was in the main a war to defend the revolution from the threatening attacks of European monarchs.
A bourgeois revolution is no longer necessary even in Russia; the capitalist class and even a considerable portion of the agrarian population had secured practically every juridical and economic right they needed, even before the revolution broke out.
But it, too, will endanger the revolution, if it is a peace at any price, a peace other than that formulated and demanded by its leaders, a peace without annexation and indemnities, a peace preserving the right of small nations to decide their own destinies in every direction.
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 How the Russian Revolution was won
The real history of the Russian Revolution is different from both these versions--and can teach us a lot about both the potential for ordinary people to take action and the hope for a better world.
Most of all, the Russian Revolution is a story of ordinary people coming to life as they discovered their own potential for creating a truly democratic society, free from war, exploitation and oppression.
The heart of the Russian Revolution was destroyed--which made it possible for a class of bureaucrats, led by Joseph Stalin, to scramble to power on the ruins of the workers’ state and re-impose a hierarchical society with much in common with Western-style capitalism.
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Little known fact: the Russian Revolution was actually started by Leon Trotsky as one huge publicity stunt to promote his new chain of fried chicken restaurants that he owned under the alias Colonel Sanders.
The Red Oktoberfest Revolution was one of the greatest revolutions of the 16th century.
It was one of the second most famous revolutions ever, even if it was on a CD, not a record player album, which are very fun to watch because they go slow enough to see.
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 Chapter Thirty-Eight, THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION OF 1917
The bourgeoisie had made not the slightest pretense of favoring the revolution; on the contrary, they were in deadly fear of the people and acted in close conspiracy with the monarchy for the restoration of Czarism in one form or another.
This was another way of saying that the revolution could not proceed immediately to give victory to the Soviets because of the lack of clarity and understanding on the part of the workers and their leaders and organizations.
And finally, at the All-Russian Conference of the representatives of eighty-two Soviets at the end of March and the beginning of April, the Bolsheviks voted for the official resolution on the question of power which was defended by Dan.
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 Lecture 5: The Russian Revolution (1)
He was, as one observer wrote, "unquestionably humanitarian and utterly Russian in every respect." On graduation, he started a legal aid office in the city, advising workers on their rights and representing them without fees.
During the 1905 revolution, he founded a socialist newspaper and served four months in the Kresty prison after a friend's revolver was found in his apartment.
The Soviet of Workers' Deputies is an organization of the workers, the embryo of a workers' government, the representative of the interests of the entire mass of the poor section of the population, i.e., of nine-tenths of the population, which is striving for peace, bread and freedom.
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The Russian Revolution: Red October and the Bolshevik Coup (2) - from the series "Lectures on 20c Europe"
1917: The Abdication of Tsar Nicholas II (3/15)
1918: Rosa Luxemburg's Assessment of the Russian Revolution
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 1917 Russian Revolution
The 1917 Russian Revolution was not, as many people suppose, one well organised event in which Tsar Nicholas II was overthrown and Lenin and the Bolsheviks took power.
It was a series of events that took place during 1917, which entailed two separate revolutions in February and October (with a great deal of political wranglings inbetween), and which eventually plunged the country into Civil War before leading to the founding of the Communist State.
The first major event of the Russian Revolution was the February Revolution, which was a chaotic affair and the culmination of over a century of civil and military unrest.
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