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 ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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.

As a result seizures of land from landowners became widespread. The continuing economic crisis discredited the Provisional Government and strengthened the appeal of the Bolsheviks.

This result failed to support the Bolsheviks’ claims as a majority party and their assertion that the October Revolution represented a popular uprising that legitimized Soviet power. While ...

The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events ...