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1 day ago · Soviet Union - Revolution, Communism, USSR: Sometime in the middle of the 19th century, Russia entered a phase of internal crisis that in 1917 would culminate in revolution. Its causes were not so much economic or social as political and cultural.
3 days ago · From the beginning of the 20th century there were three principal revolutionary parties in Russia. The Socialist Revolutionary Party, whose main base of support was the peasantry, was heavily influenced by anarchism and resorted to political terror.
3 days ago · Russian Revolution and the Soviet State,1917-21: Documents by Martin McCauley (Editor)
3 days ago · Russia - Russia from 1801 to 1917: When Alexander I came to the throne in March 1801, Russia was in a state of hostility with most of Europe, though its armies were not actually fighting; its only ally was its traditional enemy, Turkey. The new emperor quickly made peace with both France and Britain and restored normal relations with Austria.
4 days ago · The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future.
- 7 November 1917-16 June 1923 [1] [2]
- Bolshevik victory [3] [4] [5]
- Former Russian Empire
2 days ago · The Russian masses were so aroused over the massacre that a general strike was declared demanding a democratic republic. This marked the beginning of the Russian Revolution of 1905. Soviets (councils of workers) appeared in most cities to direct revolutionary activity.
5 days ago · End of the Soviet Union as a superpower and its dissolution on 26 December 1991. Collapse of the one-party state regimes, democratic centralism, planned economy. Socio-economic reforms in China, Cuba, Laos, and Vietnam. Dissolution of the Warsaw Pact, Comecon, and Eastern Bloc.
