Likewise, without the conscious role of Lenin and Trotsky guiding the Bolshevik Party itself, the October Revolution would not have taken place, or would have ended in disaster. The final denouement ...

In October, squeezing out the moderate ... live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré ...

Enter Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (born Ulyanov) and his Bolshevik party, which stormed and vandalized the Winter Palace in Petrograd—an act that would go down in history under the name of the “October ...

For starters, the Great October Revolution was unlike the February ... on the part of the leader (Lenin) of a minority party ...

First, the tragedy of the Stalinist purges that struck at millions of Soviet citizens, among them the majority of the old cadres of the Bolshevik party ... an important role in the victory of the ...

The defeat of the German revolution of 1923 contributed to strengthening ... These processes were reflected in the Bolshevik Party and undermined Trotsky’s position in the leadership.

Serious historical research has refuted claims that the October Revolution was a conspiratorial ... of the struggle within the Bolshevik Party that preceded the insurrection, noted: ...

By Gwynne Dyer - China Mieville, a novelist I much admire, has published a history of the October Revolution ... travelled to Russia to serve the Bolshevik revolution and was later persecuted ...

on the night of October 25, 1917. With the First World War raging on the battlefields of Europe, the Russian revolution has reached its decisive moment. Armed detachments of workers and soldiers, ...

It was an impromptu protest movement and non-partisan. The October Revolution was different. It was guided by a well-coordinated strategy designed by the Russian Bolshevik Party (at the time a ...

In such scenarios, “Revolution ... Socialist Revolutionary Party (Menshevik) leaders, the Provisional Government ordered an armed attack against the demonstrators. On 25 October (7 November in ...