Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

1905 Revolution ... social conditions of the Russian people, rural and urban, and unpopularity of the Tsar's regime forced him to abdicate his throne in February 1917. The replacement by ...

Lenin would have said there was no turning ... continued his straight line and yet was not broken. The Russian people had wanted revolution. It had to come. What they meant by revolution was ...

Rex A. Wade presents an essential overview of the Russian Revolution from its beginning in February 1917, through the numerous political crises under Kerensky, to the victory of Lenin and the ...

Between 1914 and 1917 Lenin and Trotsky foresaw that the imperialist ... they both oppose the insurrection. [3] The Russian Revolution provided an impulse for upheavals throughout the world.

A group of a few dozen communists gathered at Red Square in Moscow on Sunday to mark the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and creator of ...

Everything you need to know about the Russian Revolution in 13 minutes. This video covers all the major events of Russia's TWO revolutions of 1917– the ... led by Vladimir Lenin, that overthrew ...

April 4, 1917 Lenin publishes his April Theses condemning ... war that Russia found itself in and calls for further revolution in Russia June 1917 The June Offensive fails, further exacerbating ...

December 30th has witnessed a plethora of significant events throughout history, shaping the world in various ways. One of ...

Bust of Vladimir Lenin, Leader of the 1917 Russian Communist Revolution This bust was the centrepiece of a monument erected in 1942 by Finsbury Council in London. It was designed by the Russian ...