Libcom's guide to further reading around the subject of the Russian revolution and counter-revolution of 1917 to 1921. Submitted by Steven. on October 22, 2008 The Russian Revolution and Civil War, ...

The 1917 Russian Revolution, at least for a time, abolished the police. Instead of a professional police force alienated from ...

This is the first volume of his memoirs which covers the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the beginnings of the Civil War from the point of view of a peasant activist in a Ukrainian village. This ...

Lucy Worsley reveals how a spontaneous popular uprising swept the Russian Czar from power. The October Revolution of 1917 has gone down in history as the only Russian Revolution that really mattered.

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

Between 1914 and 1917 Lenin and Trotsky foresaw that the imperialist war would set the stage for revolutionary eruptions in Europe. This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February ...

Here’s What You Need to Remember: During World War I, the vessel patrolled the Baltic and took part in short bombardment operations. She successfully survived engagements with enemy warships as well ...

Russia, 1917. After the abdication of Czar Nicholas II Romanov, the struggle for power confronts allies, enemies, factions and ideas; a ruthless battle between democracy and authoritarianism that will ...