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Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev
Mikhail Vasilyevich Alekseyev , 1857-1918, Russian general, chief of staff (1915-17) of Czar Nicholas II . With other officers he urged the czar to abdicate in favor of the czarevich in order to save the dynasty prior to the Russian Revolution. Alekseyev was briefly chief of staff in the... Read more |
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Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky
Aleksandr Feodorovich Kerensky , 1881-1970, Russian revolutionary. A lawyer, he was elected to the fourth duma in 1912 as a representative of the moderate Labor party. He joined the Socialist Revolutionary party after the February Revolution of 1917 that overthrew the czarist government and... Read more |
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Selective Service Act of 1917
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Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov
Aleksey Alekseyevich Brusilov , 1853-1926, Russian general. As a commander in World War I, he won victories in Galicia. In 1916 he organized the Russian offensive against Austria, which relieved the pressure on the Allies. The offensive, successful at first, cost Russia at least a million lives.... Read more |
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Anatoli Vasilyevich Lunacharsky
Anatoli Vasilyevich Lunacharsky , 1875-1933, Russian revolutionary, dramatist, and critic. He began his revolutionary career in 1892 and joined the Bolshevik party when it appeared, forming with Gorky and Bogdanov the left wing of the group, which was in opposition to Lenin . Later he was... Read more |
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Anton Ivanovich Denikin
Anton Ivanovich Denikin , 1872-1947, Russian general. The son of a serf, he rose from the ranks. After the Bolshevik Revolution in Nov., 1917 (Oct., 1917, O.S.), he joined General Kornilov , whom he succeeded (1918) as commander of the anti-Bolshevik forces in the south. He gained control of a... Read more |
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nihilism
nihilism , theory of revolution popular among Russian extremists until the fall of the czarist government (1917); the theory was given its name by Ivan Turgenev in his novel Fathers and Sons (1861). Nihilism stressed the need to destroy existing economic and social institutions, whatever the... Read more |
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Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin
Nikolai Ivanovich Bukharin , 1888-1938, Russian Communist leader and theoretician. A member of the Bolshevik wing of the Social Democratic party, he spent the years 1911-17 abroad and edited (1916) the revolutionary paper Novy Mir [new world] in New York City. He took part in the Bolshevik... Read more |
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Grigori Evseyevich Zinoviev
Grigori Evseyevich Zinoviev , 1883-1936, Soviet Communist leader, originally named Radomyslsky. He joined the Russian Social Democratic Labor party in 1901 and sided with Vladimir Lenin's Bolshevik faction after 1903 (see Bolshevism and Menshevism ). He conducted agitation in St. Petersburg during... Read more |
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Konstantin Rokossovsky
Konstantin Rokossovsky , 1896-1968, Soviet general, b. Warsaw. He entered the czarist army and in 1917 joined the Bolshevik forces in the Russian Revolution. Purged in 1937, he was rehabilitated in 1940. In World War II he distinguished himself at Moscow, Stalingrad (later Volgograd), and Kursk and... Read more |
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Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution (1917) Events in Russia that resulted in the founding of a republic (March) and in the seizure of power by the Bolsheviks (November... |
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July Days of 1917
...July 3 – 5, 1917, in Petrograd, militant...accelerating the polarization of Russian politics and society...1968). Prelude to Revolution: The Petrograd Bolsheviks and the July 1917 Uprising. Bloomington...Russian ... |
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Industrial Revolution
Industrial Revolution Social and economic transformation...industrial societies. The Industrial Revolution began in Britain in the 18th century...developing an industrial base. The Russian Revolution (1917) led to the rapid industrialization... |
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Russian Far East
...forts and settlements; Russian fur traders arrived...afterward. In 1856-57 the Russians took advantage of a...conquests. In 1875 the Russians took Sakhalin (formerly...Trans-Siberian RR, Russian settlement of the area...After the Russian ... |
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Russian Americans
...region) for whom the Russian language is the main...home environment. Russians have been living in...occurred at the end of the Russian Revolution (1917), the second took...Census Data, 95,137 Russians lived in the United... |
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Russian literature
Russian literature Literary works of Russia until 1917, then of the Soviet Union until 1991. Thereafter...futurists, such as Vladimir Mayakovsky . After the Russian Revolution (1917), many writers fled overseas to escape censorship... |
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Civil War of 1917–1922
CIVIL WAR OF 1917 – 1922 The most decisive chapter of the Russian Revolution, the civil war raged between October 1917 and 1922. The traumatic experience...and during the Revolution of 1917; and in the Bolshevik ... |
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February Revolution
February Revolution 1917, in Russian history: see The February Revolution under Russian Revolution . |
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October Revolution
October Revolution 1917, in Russian history: see Russian Revolution . |
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Russian Federation
Russian Federation According to international...which was created after the First Russian Revolution in October 1917. The USSR was established formally...and was the successor state of the Russian Empire under the tsarist rule of the... |
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Russian Revolutions
Russian Revolutions (1917) From the end of the...despite the 1905 Russian Revolution . The tensions inherent...landlords in the summer of 1917. Against this background...the government in July 1917. However, he ... |
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Russian Revolution
Russian Revolution (1917) The overthrow of the government of...compounded with the reluctance of the Russian people to continue to fight in World...government from Petrograd to Moscow. The RUSSIAN CIVIL WAR continued for nearly three... |
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October Revolution
October Revolution See RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (1917). |
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Russian Civil War
Russian Civil War (1918–21) A...the Soviets in the aftermath of the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION of 1917. It is sometimes referred to as the...resistance to the BOLSHEVIKS in December 1917, and clashed with an army hastily brought... |
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Russian
Russian of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Russia. Russian...of Russia, a branch of the Eastern Orthodox Church. Russian Revolution the revolution in the Russian empire in 1917, in which the tsarist regime ... |
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Dzerzhinsky, Feliks Edmundovich
...was eventually released after the February Revolution, 1917. He became one of the principal organizers of Lenin's October Revolution ( Russian Revolutions , 1917), and in December 1917 founded perhaps the... |
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Plekhanov, Georgi Valentinovich
...1856, d. 30 May 1918). Russian Marxist Born in Gudalovka...the February Revolution of 1917, but was unable to prevent...Bolshevik takeover in the October Revolution of 1917 ( Russian Revolutions , ... |
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Soviet
Soviet (Russian, “council...appointed delegates. In 1917 a Soviet modelled on that...the provinces and in June 1917 the first All Russia Congress...of power in the RUSSIAN REVOLUTION (1917). During the ... |
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Zinoviev, Grigori Yevseevich
...Elizavetgrad, he joined the Russian Social Democratic Party...to Finland in July 1917, but opposed his mentor...plans for the October Revolution ( Russian Revolutions , 1917) as premature. He...Soviet from December ... |
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Cheka
...Komissiya, All-Russian Extraordinary Commission...Suppression of Counter-Revolution and Sabotage) A secret...Lenin in December 1917 and run by Dzerzhinsky...establish the Communist Revolution ( Russian Revolutions , ... |
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From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and Their Revolution, 1917-21.
...textbooks about the Russian Revolution of 1917...impulses of ordinary Russians - metalworkers, peasants...contribution to the revolution. The exposition takes...follows the onset, after 1917, of disillusionment...histories ... |
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Revisiting the revisionists and their critics.(revisionist critique and the...
...totalitarian" interpretation of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the state and society it created...intellectuals and leaders of the 1917 Provisional Government, as well...Bolshevik seizure of power in 1917 as a coup d'etat by a tiny ... |
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The Russian Revolution: In 1917, the Russian people started a rebellion that...
...its allies defeated Russian troops, Russians at home were starving...crowds of protesters. As 1917 approached, Russians...1916 Narrator A: Many Russians believe that Grigory...the government in the Russian capital, ... |
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From Tsar to Soviets: The Russian People and Their Revolution 1917-21. (book...
...events and processes in Russian and Soviet history continues...understanding of post-1917 history. The books under...of change effected in 1917, the periodisation of...Soviet history between 1917 and 1924 owes much to...Read's work on the ... |
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Men Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929
...Without Women: Masculinity and Revolution in Russian Fiction, 1917-1929. Durham: Duke University...set in the context of the Russian civil war, Borenstein maintains...realm of filiation, the revolution has produced "an all-male... |
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Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of...
Interpreting the Russian Revolution: The Language and Symbols of 1917. Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii...300-08106-5. The Anglo-Russian authors of this book define...meanings in the politics of 1917.' By 'language' they mean... |
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Cronies or capitalists?; the Russian bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois revolution...
...or capitalists?; the Russian bourgeoisie, and the bourgeois revolution from 1850 to 1917. Lockwood, David...before the triumph of the revolution can cast light on similar...and the place of the Russian events in European history... |
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Russian communists commemorate anniversary of 1917 Revolution
Russian communists commemorate anniversary of 1917 Revolution MOSCOW, Nov. 7 (Xinhua...members and supporters of the Russian Communist Party Monday held rally...commemorate the 88th anniversary of the 1917 Revolution. Earlier ... |
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Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917.(Brief Article)
...Radicalism of the American Revolution promises to challenge traditional...is renewed interest in the Russian revolutions of 1917, particularly the view "from below." Revolution in Russia: Reassessments of 1917 provides a ... |
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Voices of Revolution, 1917.(Book Review)
Voices of Revolution, 1917. Edited by Mark D. Steinberg...documents pertaining to ordinary Russians during the period of the Russian Revolution of 1917. These documents--including...the Bolshevik victory. In ... |
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