Questions tagged [russian-revolution]
Questions related to the history of the Russian revolutions (January 1905, February 1917, and October 1917) which eroded and then eliminated the autocracy of the Tsars in Russia and led to the establishment of the Soviet Union.
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Why does this card contain the phrase "Bat Card"?
This card is related to the revolution in Cronstadt Island during the Russian civil war. In this footage you can read Bat Card ( although it is written in Russian ).
Does anybody know why such a name ...
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Is Ossendowski's tale about hidden treasure in Mongolia true?
Could you confirm whether the story by Polish writer Ossendowski about the Mad Baron burying treasure in an unknown location in Mongolia is true? I understand that the Mad Baron was a warlord in ...
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Was the Russian fleet still a plausible threat for the German fleet in 1917?
According to Anthony Beevor in his book Russia, revolution and civil war, also cited in Wikipedia, the Ice Cruise of the Baltic Fleet was a well-led evacuation operation from Hanko and Helsinski, in ...
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after 1917 the bolsheviks started conquering again all the former nations of russian empire(including poland and finland) -was it legal? [closed]
since the russian king Nicolay II dethroned himself - was it legal for the new administration to conquer back freed nations?
what was the reason for the reds to come back and install their regime?
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Did Bolsheviks try to foster socialist revolution in Europe?
At the moment of the Socialist Revolution (or coup d'état) in October/November 1917 Russia was still mostly an agrarian society, whereas Marxist theory predicted Socialist revolutions in developed ...
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What is Lenin critically referring to here - presumably some actions by Trotsky?
What is Lenin referring to here?
"Discerning reader”: note that this does not mean “blowing up
bridges”, organising unsuccessful strikes in the war industries, and
·in general helping the ...
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To what extent did Russian bourgeoisie and capitalism continued to exist through the Soviet rule in the USSR? [closed]
During the Communist rule in Russia, the industry and land were mostly nationalized, and many of the previous landowners or industrialist were either exiled or physically exterminated. However, the ...
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What were Lenin's and Trotsky's roles in the October revolution of 1917?
Lenin spend the two months preceding the overthrow of the provisional government far away from Saint-Petersburg/Petrograd or Moscow - even the official Soviet version of events openly and readily ...
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When did Russian officially replace Old Slavonic?
When was Russian adopted as the official language of Russia?
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Well into the XVIII-th (or even XIX-th) century Russian co-existed in a state of diglossia with Old Church Slavonic, based on a ...
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What was 250,000 rubles worth in 1918?
Circa 1918, during the Ukrainian War of Independence and the Russian Revolution, Nestor Makhno's army expropriated 250,000 rubles from a bank, per Skirda 2004.
Is there a way to contextualize the size/...
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Who else has been credited as "grandfather of the Russian revolution"?
Kropotkin is known as "grandfather of the Russian revolution". Not sure who first gave him this title, but mass media of that time used it.
Lenin got the title post-mortem.
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How did the Bolsheviks gain power outside Petrograd & Moscow following the 1917 October Revolution?
Every book I have read that deals with the 1917 October Revolution in Russia describes the Bolshevik seizure of power in Petrograd, and more briefly in Moscow, but says next to nothing about how the ...
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Why was Lenin's brother executed, when he himself was only banished?
Alexander was executed. But Lenin was sent abroad. He settled in Germany, before he came back for the Revolution (and, as some people say, to avenge his brother).
(A related question.)
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Was the Kerensky Offensive doomed from the start?
I've been reading about Russia in the Great War during 1917, and what is quite surprising for me is the Kerensky Offensive. Primarily, what is surprising is that the army was in great material terms ...
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What was Louise Bryant's (John Reed's widow) view of the Soviet Union at end of her life?
American journalist and radical Louise Bryant (1885-1936), was, with her husband and fellow newspaper reporter John Reed, a sympathetic eyewitness to the 1917 October Revolution and beginning of the ...
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