Earlier this marked the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia ... After all, the only reason Lenin was able to get from Zurich to Petrograd in 1917 was that the imperial German ...

"We old men may not live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré in Switzerland ...

Lenin returned to Russia in April and ... despite the fact that the Bolshevik-led revolution clearly enjoyed mass support. Even after the overthrow, the Mensheviks rebuffed efforts of moderate ...

What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...

The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Tariq Ali, Verso, 384 pages. On October 25, 1917, across the city of Petrograd, the Bolshevik party was preparing to take power ...

Petersburg belonged to the Bolsheviks. These three men are guarding a side road leading to the Smolny Institute, which had become Lenin's headquarters after the October Revolution. Lenin held ...

prompting even Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to declare Russia in April 1917 “the freest country in the world,” it was the ...

The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events ...

Some of his comrades saw these soviets in a sectarian way (“we shouldn’t be involved with that nonsense; we’ve got to make a ...