Topic: Bolshevik Party

St. Petersburg: Then and Now

Uniform granite sidewalks along Nevsky Prospekt. Piles of freshly baked bread, meat and cheese, and oranges, tomatoes, and cucumbers in...
Nine decades after Lenin and his Bolsheviks imposed Communism on the Russian empire and two decades after the implosion of the USSR, some of the...
Wikipedia. Bonaparte ended up ruling all of Longwood House in St. Helena. . Hosni Mubarak is far from the first autocrat who stayed too long at the...

Romanov Mystery

Czar Nicholas II and his family were executed by the Bolsheviks in 1918 . Two of his children's bodies were missing, leading to speculation that Alexei and Anastasia had survived. Czar Nicholas II, his wife and 5 children The Romanov mystery surrounds ...
It?s not as long as the longest of Tolstoy and Dostoievsky?s novels, but it?s the same sort of ambitious attempt at a sweeping work covering much space and time, following a large number of characters through a historically important ...
In truth, the Russian Revolution of 1917 was really two revolutions. Given this support for the Russian monarchy had reached its nadir. Hereafter however, Lenin and the Bolsheviks soon returned to Russia after the February Revolution. In short, their objectives were to ...
The Bolsheviks successfully made a revolution and seized power at the end of October 1917. This decision and many others, made the Provisional government very unpopular, with the support for the Bolsheviks now growing. With the Provisional government not allowing peasants land ...

Historical events of 1917

However, events in Russia brought the war in the east close to an end. Upon his arrival the Bolsheviks did not support the provisional government, and Lenin published the April thesis which outlined the Bolshevik's policies. By October the Bolsheviks had ...
Russia during the inter-war period saw the rise of the USSR as the Bolsheviks consolidated their regime. Despite this, the USSR had not made any diplomatic agreements with western Europe. Britain and France remained weary of the USSR, and in 1938 the ...
In the Soviet Russia, Communist regimes used violence to accomplish their goal of a classless society. Focusing on the nationalization of manufacturing and retailing sectors and imposing forced labor for civilians and the military, Vladimir Ilyich Lenin embraced a real, nation-wide terror ...