|
| |
| | Russian Revolutions of 1917 - MSN Encarta |
 | | The Russian political system, often referred to as the tsarist regime or simply tsarism, involved the repression of civil liberties, intellectual freedom, and human rights in general. | | | This process would involve the democratic revolution being pushed forward by a new workers’ and peasants’ government—what Lenin called a democratic dictatorship of the proletariat and the peasantry. | | | The Russian Marxists formed the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party (RSDLP) in 1898. |
|
http://encarta.msn.com/encyclopedia_761569348/Russian_Revolutions_of_1917.html
(1786 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution of 1917 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | Year One of the Russian Revolution from the Victor Serge Internet Archive on Marxists Internet Archive. | | | Trotsky and his supporters, as well as a number of other democratically-minded communists, were persecuted and eventually imprisoned or killed. | | | Others counter that this was simply an excuse for Stalin and his followers to push back democratic gains won during the revolution and consolidate his bureaucratic dictatorship. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution_of_1917
(2692 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution |
| | The October Revolution was a coup on the night of 25–26 October (6–7 November by the Western calendar). | | | The square, in existence since the 15th century, saw the final scenes of the October Revolution, in which the Congress of Soviets, led by the Bolsheviks, seized key sites in the capital, including the Kremlin, and took over power from the provisional government of Russia. | | | Lenin believed that the people needed the leadership of a small party of professional revolutionaries, who would then control the new, classless society. |
|
http://www.tiscali.co.uk/reference/encyclopaedia/hutchinson/m0005600.html
(788 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution of 1917, series of events in imperial Russia that culminated in 1917 with the establishment of the ... |
| | The Russian Communists began the "Red terror" campaign in which suspected anti-Communists, known as Whites, were arrested, tried, and executed. | | | In his first address to the delegates, he advocated uncompromising opposition to the war and the Provisional Government and irreconcilable hostility toward all supporters of both; he proposed that the party struggle for the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship. | | | Lenin and the Russian Communist Party took strict control of the country. |
|
http://www.emayzine.com/lectures/russianrev.html
(4539 words)
|
|
| |
| | Another Russian Revolution? (washingtonpost.com) |
| | Russian activists found inspiration and a namesake in Ukraine's student pro-democracy group Pora, shown demonstrating in the capital, Kiev, in October in support of opposition leader Viktor Yushchenko, now president. | | | But as Lenin once said, "a revolution is a miracle," and the Kremlin and its political opponents seem bewitched by the possibility of one. | | | But following the Orange Revolution in Ukraine, the government of President Vladimir Putin was unexpectedly shaken by thousands of retirees who took to the streets to protest cuts in their benefits. |
|
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A38431-2005Apr8.html
(995 words)
|
|
| |
| | lenin |
| | The workers who had not taken part in the coup, viewed the Revolution as the establishment of a government for the working people not of a party. | | | The popular myth that the Bolsheviks hijacked the revolution during the last minute suggests that the Bolsheviks provided little leadership and that it was mainly due to other causes. | | | Once again Lenin rejected the two stage revolution and insisted on immediate seziure of power by his party so as to implement his slogan 'Peace, Land and Bread.' The Bolsheviks should shed its old name and use 'Communist Party' instead. |
|
http://members.tripod.com/~leavis/lenin.htm
(3768 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution |
| | The Revolution brought Mayakovsky a far greater prominence than he had enjoyed before and during the First World War, at which time the Futurists were routinely vilified by the press and Mayakovsky was frequently jailed or censored for his political views. | | | Trotsky, in his magisterial History of the Russian Revolution, notes that no strikes had been planned for 23 February, the day that the February insurrection began in Petrograd. | | | What is more, even a Bolshevik organization, and a most militant one--the Vyborg borough-committee, all workers--was opposing strikes." The point is this: the upheavals that brought down the Tsar and catapulted the Provisional Government into leadership attest to the high level of revolutionary sentiment in Russia. |
|
http://www.spress.de/mmp/department/r_futurismus/essays/lehr/ww1rev.html
(488 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Russian Revolution |
| | Russia was left, in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1905, with the same inept, authoritarian government that it had had before. | | | As Lenin said, the Russian people were voting with their feet. | | | Political leaders emerged from underground, where they had taken refuge from the Russian Police, and organized a common front against the government, making demands for the establishment of a Constitution and a legislature. |
|
http://www2.sunysuffolk.edu/westn/russrev.html
(1820 words)
|
|
| |
| | Makhnovists & The Russian Revolution |
| | Berkman suggests that the Bolshevik coup and dictatorship "made a new revolution, the Third Revolution, necessary."18 This Third Revolution was to be a social revolution as opposed to the two political revolutions that had already taken place that year. | | | The sailors of Kronstadt were to be the heroes of many workers, peasants and anarchists due mainly to their heroic stance against the Bolsheviks as well as the essential rights that they had fought for in 1917 and were now demanding. | | | Berkman worked to convince the foreign visitors that Russian anarchists had been imprisoned17 and that the Bolshevik Government was simply another oppressive one. |
|
http://members.aol.com/ThryWoman/MRR.html
(4659 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Russian Revolution |
| | The other was the October Revolution in which the Provisional Government was overthrown by the Bolsheviks. | | | In other words, 1905 made revolution for Latvians concrete (Ezergailis 21)." Nearly one thousand people in the Baltic were captured and executed and thousands were exiled to Siberian prison camps (Von Rauch 14). | | | Next it explores what these three states were up against in gaining their independence and what it took to survive in this revolutionary climate. |
|
http://depts.washington.edu/baltic/papers/russianrevolution.htm
(2864 words)
|
|
| |
| | October 1917 : A lost opportunity for socialism? The Russian Revolution |
| | A libertarian communist perspective on the Russian revolution of 1917. | | | Russian anarchist, Gregory Maximoff, writes of the suppression of discussion in the Bolshevik party in the early 1920's | | | A review of John Rees article on Defending October published in International Socialist, focusing on his claims on the Kronstadt rising of 1921, as a way of understanding the Leninist method on the Russian Revolution |
|
http://flag.blackened.net/revolt/russia.html
(630 words)
|
|
| |
| | In Defence of the Russian Revolution |
| | To justify my acceptance of the kind invitation to present a report on the Russian Revolution, permit me to point to the fact that during the thirty-five years of my political life the question of the Russian Revolution has been the practical and theoretical axis of my thought and of my actions... | | | Against a numerically weak Russian bourgeoisie, which had no national roots, there stood confronting it a relatively strong proletariat with strong roots in the depths of the people. | | | The French journalist, Claude Anet, who was in Petrograd during the Revolution, wrote as early as 27th October, 1917: "The maximalists (which was what the French called the Bolsheviks at that time) have seized power and the great day has come. |
|
http://www.marxist.com/History/copenhagen.html
(6366 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution/Stalinism |
| | Although ideally objective, historians are not immune from their own biases and ideological convictions and the ideological tinge that surfaces in their writings is noticeably louder when it comes to the Russian Revolution. | | | They dismiss the notion of a Bolshevik coup and assert the Revolution was successful because it had widespread support. | | | In short, the old orthodoxy (the coup advocates) viewed Lenin, the Soviet Regime, and Communism as an abomination whereas the revisionists (uprising of masses) see a noble experiment that was derailed after Lenin's death. |
|
http://www.uweb.ucsb.edu/~zeppelin/russianrev.htm
(3081 words)
|
|
| |
| | Lecture 6: The Russian Revolution (2) |
| | This question is urgent because whatever legitimacy the Soviet regime could once claim, in its own view, depended on the ideological conformity of the proletariat with the Party and hence, on the socialist authenticity of October. | | | The Russian Revolution: Red October and the Bolshevik Coup (2) | | | He openly accused the government and the bourgeoisie of encouraging the "bony hand of hunger," to strangle the revolution. |
|
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/lecture6.html
(5201 words)
|
|
| |
| | Lenin and the First Communist Revolutions, III |
| | The March revolution forced the Czar to abdicate, established freedom of the press, and granted a blanket amnesty to political prisoners in Siberia - including terrorists. | | | Lenin and most of his associates either lived in foreign exile in neutral countries, or languished in the Czar's Siberian prisons. | | | After a July Bolshevik coup failed and quite a few Bolsheviks were arrested, it appeared that Lenin's day might have already come and gone. |
|
http://www.gmu.edu/departments/economics/bcaplan/museum/his1c.htm
(749 words)
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.com: The Russian Revolution (Vintage): Books: Richard Pipes |
| | With erudition lightly worn, Harvard historian Pipes, in this massive, wonderfully vivid, gripping chronicle, stresses the role of liberals both in the Russian revolution of 1905, for which the Communists later claimed credit, and in the upheavals of 1917. | | | He argues persuasively that the Bolsheviks' October 1917 putsch was not a true revolution, but a classic coup d'etat. | | | This, along with heavier taxes than under Tsarist times and multiplying murders against so called `counter-revolutionaries' made the Bolsheviks immediately unpopular. |
|
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0679736603?v=glance
(2028 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution on Encyclopedia.com |
| | A second all-Russian congress of soviets met and approved the coup after the Mensheviks and Socialist Revolutionaries walked out of the meeting. | | | Among this growing intelligentsia, the majority of whom were abstractly humanitarian and democratic, there were also those who were politically radical and even revolutionary. | | | Despite its strength, the soviet at first did not openly seize power; the Socialist Revolutionaries and Mensheviks who initially dominated it believed that at this stage of the revolution the bourgeois provisional government should rule. |
|
http://www.encyclopedia.com/html/R/RussianR1.asp
(2067 words)
|
|
| |
| | Leaders of the Russian Revolution |
| | After the October 1917 coup, Kalinin was active in the Petrograd Communist Party. | | | Vera Zasulich came to prominence with her attempt to assassinate General Trepov, head of the St. Petersburg police, in 1878. | | | Martove: A Political Biography of a Russian Social Democrat. |
|
http://www.library.yale.edu/slavic/leaders.html
(1303 words)
|
|
| |
| | Web Links - World War I |
| | 1918: Rosa Luxemburg's Assessment of the Russian Revolution | | | The Rise of Russian Industries, as Described at the Chicago World's Fair | | | Programme of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party |
|
http://www.historyteacher.net/APEuroCourse/WebLinks/WebLinks-RussianRevol.htm
(450 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Russian Revolution |
| | I used to answer questions on the revolution but my access to my account is too intermittent for that now but you might find my FAQ worth a glance. | | | Lenin's Testament Just before his death Lenin told the party to remove Stalin. | | | Sokolov's Account of the Murder of the Romanovs |
|
http://www.barnsdle.demon.co.uk/russ/rusrev.html
(374 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution |
| | The Okhrana (Russian security police) had placed officers outside of Rasputin's home to monitor his and his visitors' comings and goings. | | | Not the easiest site to navigate but includes interviews with participants and eyewitnesses to the rise of the Soviet State. | | | Russia: World War I government policies and effects. |
|
http://www.casahistoria.net/Russian_Rev.htm
(1420 words)
|
|
| |
| | Internet Modern History Sourcebook: Russian Revolution |
| | Mary Antin: A Little Jewish Girl in the Russian Pale, 1890 [At this Site] | | | Program of the Socialist Revolutionary Party, 1905 [At Durham] | | | Program of the Russian Constitutional Democratic (Kadet) Party, 1905 [At Durham] |
|
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/modsbook39.html
(747 words)
|
|
| |
| | Web-and-Flow Hotlist: russia |
| | Maps · Chronology · Background Information · Nicholas II · Revolution of 1905 ·; Online learning activities · Political Parties · Execution of Romanov Family · February and October 1917 ·; War Communism · New Economic Policy | | | Consider what members of your family were alive then? | | | Provides a focus on the political situation pre 1905 |
|
http://www.web-and-flow.com/members/lhayman/russia/hotlist.htm
(339 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Posters |
| | Moor was a fervent Communist, whose views had been formed during the unsuccessful Revolution of 1905. | | | The Bolshevik Revolution created the first Communist state, a government of workers and peasants. | | | Its major weapons were Dimitri Moor and Viktor Deni, both cartoonists before the Revolution. |
|
http://www.internationalposter.com/ru-text.cfm
(2254 words)
|
|
| |
| | History & Culture of Russia / The Path to Revolution |
| | The industrialization of the major western cities and the development of the Batu oil fields had brought together large concentrations of Russian workers, and they soon began to organize into local political councils, or soviets. | | | It was in large part the power of the soviets, united under the Social Democratic party, that had forced Nicholas to accept reforms in 1905. | | | The power of the reform movement was founded on a new and powerful force entered Russian politics. |
|
http://www.geographia.com/russia/rushis06.htm
(863 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution |
| | Tsar Nicholas II, the last of the Romanov's, abdicated on March 15, 1917. | | | Absolutism remained the system of government, social injustice and economic want were also character-istics of the Russian state. | | | Most of the land and high government positions were in the hands of the rich. |
|
http://www.fresno.k12.ca.us/schools/s090/lloyd/russian_revolution.htm
(694 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution Summary |
| | Agriculture - collectivization of land: perhaps 10 Million people died in forced collectivization. | | | A revolution from above - Doctrine of "socialism in one country" |
|
http://www.fordham.edu/halsall/mod/rusrev.html
(292 words)
|
|
| |
| | Posters |
| | Late in the nineteenth century, when Lenin and Trotsky were young, the Russian tsar was on top of a class society, and the majority of the Russians were poor and struggling just to survive. | | | As such, Lenin was celebrated in 1927, for the ten year anniversary of the October Revolution, and in 1929, five years after his death. | | | With Lenin's death in 1924, he became the star of many of the posters, as the founder of the Soviet Union, and the one who had originated most of the Soviet policies. |
|
http://www.fbuch.com/posters.htm
(335 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution of 1917 A Gallery Of Pictures |
| | Delegates at the 1st All-Russian Session of Workers&; and Soldiers' Deputies, photographed inside the Duma chamber in the Tauride Palice (Petrograd, June 1917). | | | The actual fighting at the Palace took place at night and there were no cameras present. | | | Russian Revolution of 1917 A Gallery Of Pictures |
|
http://www.nevsky88.com/SaintPetersburg/Revolution
(302 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution |
| | The Social democrats were Marxist and believed that the urban working class would overthrow the government. | | | The Social Democrats were broken into two groups, the Bolsheviks and the Mensheviks. | | | The war lasted from 1918-1920 and 15 million people were killed before Trotsky led the Reds to victory. |
|
http://members.aol.com/sniper43/russian.html
(753 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution, October, 1917 |
| | The Provisional Government has never violated the liberty of all citizens of the State to use their political rights. | | | But now the Provisional Government declares, in this moment those elements of the Russian nation, those groups and parties who have dared to lift their hands against the free will of the Russian people, at the same time threatening to open the front to Germany, must be liquidated. | | | It is said that what the Russian worker will begin the German worker will finish. |
|
http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/RUSnovemberR.htm
(3002 words)
|
|
| |
| | The Russian Revolution |
| | Under the lawful cloak of a broadly elected, popular-representative body, the Soviets, the conspiracy could be planned and prepared with a degree of carefulness which made Lenin's plan for a spontaneous coup by the Party appear to be an irresponsible adventure. | | | But at the All Russian Party Conference in May there were excited debates: Lenin proposed to break with the International Workers Movement and found a new international. | | | Party Conference was held on April 10 to straighten things out; the assumption was that they should be satisfied with the democratic results of the revolution and postpone the socialist demands until later; the moderate Bolsheviks support the Provisional Government; radical Bolsheviks insist that the revolution must be anti-capitalist and not only anti-feudal |
|
http://mars.wnec.edu/~grempel/courses/wc2/lectures/russrev.html
(2870 words)
|
|
| |
| | The First Russian revolution 1905 - 1907 years |
| | He gathered about the newspaper, not only Party comrades dedicated to the work of the revolution but also splendid journalists and publicists: | | | Lenin comprehensively substantiated the idea of the proletariat as predominant force in the bourgeois-democratic revolution, and worked out the theory of its development into a socialist revolution. | | | During a period of 9 days several thousand armed workers led a heroic struggle with the police and government troops. |
|
http://www.stel.ru/museum/first_russian_revolution_1905.htm
(767 words)
|
|
| |
| | Anarchism and the Russian Revolution : WSM texts on the Russian Revolution |
| | Dermot Sreenan looks at his later writings and finds a Serge unhappy with many aspects of Bolshevik rule but unable to break with them because of the apparent success of the Russian Revolution. | | | The Russian revolution has been a subject of key importance to anarchists for two reasons. | | | This book is a must for anyone who is confused as to why the Russian Revolution went wrong, for anyone who feels that to explain the aberrations and atrocities perpetrated by the Bolsheviks as necessitated by imperialist blockades or 'objective circumstances' |
|
http://struggle.ws/russia_wsm.html
(988 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution |
| | The catastrophe; Kerensky's own story of the Russian revolution. | | | A rival faction to the Bolsheviks, the Mensheviks represented the moderates of the Russian Social Democratic Labor party. | | | Contains information on the March Revolution of 1917, the development of the Bolshevik bureaucracy, Trotsky's negotiations with Germany, Japan's entry into Siberia, the 1919 U.S. Peace Mission to Russia, the New Economic Policy of 1921-1928, the death of Lenin, the Stalin-Trotsky power struggle, communist party activities, recognition of the Soviet government. |
|
http://mulibraries.missouri.edu/brekhusr/russianrev.html
(1272 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian revolution - 12 December 2005 |
| | The sector has not been without controversy, such as the ongoing breakup of Yukos and jailing of Mikhail Khodorkovsky and the legal battle for control of the Moscow oil refinery, involving Sibur (the only UK-listed company entirely focused on Russia) and Sibneft. | | | On a more positive note, the Russian courts recently upheld a foreign court judgment in relation to Yukos creditors - the first time in Russian history, although recently the Court of Cassation remited this decision back to the Arbitrage Court for rehearing. | | | The claim relates to outstanding payments from a $1bn (£578.6m) loan issued to Yukos in 2003, and by upholding the claim the Russian courts have allowed the banks to join the list of Yukos creditors. |
|
http://www.thelawyer.com/cgi-bin/item.cgi?id=118081&d=122&h=24&f=46
(1026 words)
|
|
| |
| | Amazon.ca: A People's Tragedy: A History of the Russian Revolution: Books |
| | If one is interested in the history of the October revolution, one need not read obscure academic riff raff of this speculating fool. | | | Figes's themes of the Russian revolution as a tragedy for the Russian people as a whole and for the millions of individuals who lost their lives to the brutal forces it unleashed make sense of events for a new generation of students of Russian history. | | | If I could only read one book on the Russian Revolution, this would be the one. |
|
http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/014024364X
(674 words)
|
|
| |
| | OpinionJournal - Featured Article |
| | This historical paradox would recur in an inverted form--with the attainment of equal rights in the 20th century, Russian women vanished from political power and from political life in general. | | | This was received with bewilderment by the majority of the populace, and in particular, by women. | | | But there is a world beyond tennis, and they will have it, too. |
|
http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110007180
(1476 words)
|
|
| |
| | Topic: Russian Revolution of 1917 |
| | This site contains a narrative timeline of the Russian Revolution, including the time of dual power and the subsequent revolutions and Party purges. | | | This site contains many links about the timeline of the Russian Revolution including information on the Tsars, and Stalin’s government. | | | This site is also a good area to begin because it describes the general aspects of Socialism. |
|
http://www.cwu.edu/~schuettd/virtuallib.html
(425 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution Resources |
| | Here you will find a variety of links to primary sources, pages dedicated to the House of Romanov, e-texts, as well as interpretative essays on the Revolution itself. | | | Russian history in general is particularly well-represented on the Internet. | | | While what follows is far from an exhaustive list, there are enough websites here to at least get you going on more advanced research on the events of 1917. |
|
http://www.historyguide.org/europe/rusrev_links.html
(95 words)
|
|
| |
| | AK Press :: Topic :: Russian Revolution |
| | It was in prison in 1911 that Peter Arshinov established a close personal and political friendship with Makhno, which continued after their release following the February Revolution in 1917. | | | In 1922 he settled in Berlin and published the Russian edition of his story. | | | Certainly an extraordinary book, and Serge isn't shy about revealing the forces that were to produce the Stalinist regime. |
|
http://www.akpress.org/2005/topics/russianrevolution
(690 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | The Russian Revolution of 1905 was a series of strikes and anti-government violence against Tsar Nicholas II The Russian Revolution of 1917, which included: | | | The Third Russian Revolution was the failed anarchist revolution against the Bolsheviks and the White movement 1918 - 1922 | | | This is a disambiguation page: a list of articles associated with the same title. |
|
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Revolution
(198 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution articles on Encyclopedia.com |
| | revolution REVOLUTION [revolution] in a political sense, fundamental and violent change in the values, political institutions, social structure, leadership, and policies of a society. | | | Russian language RUSSIAN LANGUAGE [Russian language] also called Great Russian, member of the East Slavic group of the Slavic subfamily of the Indo-European family of languages (see Slavic languages). | | | Russian State Library RUSSIAN STATE LIBRARY [Russian State Library] (RSL), Russia's national library, located in Moscow; the largest library in Europe and the second largest in the world (the Library of Congress is the largest). |
|
http://www.encyclopedia.com/articles/11250.html
(423 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution |
| | This episode in Russian history raises important questions about the role of art in society, and its relationship to politics. | | | These works were meant as public education, speaking directly to the citizens, and were produced as a central part of the process of creating a new society. | | | Artists were fully involved in the Revolution, both inspired by and helping to elucidate and convey the new ideals that this new society was meant to be organized around. |
|
http://www.universityofthepoor.org/schools/artists/histpages/russian.htm
(320 words)
|
|
| |
| | First Russian revolution and Vladimir Lenin. February, 1917. |
| | In January 1917, in a speech before young workers at the People's House in Zurich, Lenin spoke of the 1905 Russian revolution: "We must not be deceived by the present grave-like stillness in Europe. | | | Here Lenin revealed the character of the February Revolution, gave a deep and comprehensive analysis of its motive forces, pointed out its specific features, prospects, and defined the tasks of the proletariat, elucidated the historical role of the Bolshevik Party which took the course of transition from the bourgeois-democratic revolution to the socialist revolution. | | | Leader of the October Russian Revolution (March-October 1917) |
|
http://www.stel.ru/museum/february_russian_revolution.htm
(441 words)
|
|
| |
| | Russian Revolution Resources |
| | This site focuses on the people behind the revolution, and includes links to their writings related resources. | | | Relations between the Soviet Union and the United States were driven by a complex interplay of ideological, political, and economic factors, which led to shifts between cautious cooperation and often bitter superpower rivalry over the years. | | | Primary source information related to Marxism-Leninism, the guiding people behind the Soviet State that emerged from the Russian Revolution. |
|
http://dewey.chs.chico.k12.ca.us/russ.html
(444 words)
|
|
|
