Regardless of the exact makeup of the first Soviet government, “there was great and undeniable enthusiasm among basically all the elements that made up Russian Jewry during the revolution,” sa ...

Following the revolution WW1 was largely forgotten, and dismissed by the Soviets as an “imperialist” battle. Around 1.7 million soldiers fighting for the Russian Empire died in the conflict ...

The Russian people were angry at Tsar Nicholas II for getting Russia into the war.

1922 To find out more about the period surrounding the 1917 Revolution, we asked professors Scott Kenworthy (religion), Steve Norris (history), and Ben Sutcliffe (russian) to give us a list of their ...

The Russian Civil War raged from 1918 until the ... Armies and their leaders would destroy all the achievements of the Revolution, break up the Soviets and bring back the old system.

Many feared that foreign intervention would bring an end to Russian independence in the event of White victory. Given the choice between the Bolsheviks and the Whites, it was hardly surprising ...