The Russian people had wanted revolution. It had to come. What they meant by revolution was the overthrow of an inept and suffocating tyranny and its substitution by some more liberal system.

However, only about 20,000 found their way into America during the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 up through World War II. World War I, the Russian Revolution, and then the ...

Grigori Rasputin was a mystic who was originally only a peasant, so how did he become entangled with the Emperor of Russia, ...

This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February Revolution, which arose out of the war and its extreme exacerbation of the crisis of Russian society. After the February ...

"Revolution is already on our minds," he declared ... Popkov said whether or not another Russian civil war would follow, ...

One hundred years after the outbreak of World War I and the Russian Revolution, none of the problems of the twentieth century—devastating wars, economic crises, social inequality, and the threat ...

Sverdlov, Volodarsky, and Uritsky, all active leaders, were assassinated in the early days of the Revolution. Lenin, the flaming torch that fired the Russian masses and sought to fire the world ...

Victims and survivors of a pogrom against the Jews of Proskurov, Ukraine, during the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The word pogrom literally means "riot" in Russian. Commonly ...

1905 Revolution — Causes and events The 1905 ... events and effects The dire social conditions of the Russian people, rural and urban, and unpopularity of the Tsar's regime forced him to ...

Portage students are taking audiences back to the World War I-era Russian revolution in their upcoming musical this weekend.

Learn about the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, the Bolsheviks, communism, the notorious Rasputin, rumors of cannibalism and acute poverty during the ...