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"We old men may not 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 in Switzerland ...

Lenin returned to Russia in April and ... despite the fact that the Bolshevik-led revolution clearly enjoyed mass support. Even after the overthrow, the Mensheviks rebuffed efforts of moderate ...

What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...

Hanna Perekhoda revisits Lenin’s pre-1917 writings on the right of nations to self-determination from the perspective of his ...

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 ...

prompting even Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to declare Russia in April 1917 “the freest country in the world,” it was the ...

A movement to canonize Lenin as a Bolshevik saint was reputed to be “gaining strength.” Peasants of Kaluga Province, near Moscow: “Give us a short history of Lenin’s life and sayings that ...

Petersburg belonged to the Bolsheviks. These three men are guarding a side road leading to the Smolny Institute, which had become Lenin's headquarters after the October Revolution. Lenin held ...

The radicals, led by Lenin, insisted that only those truly committed to immediate revolution should be members. In 1903, Lenin became the leader of the ‘Bolshevik’ faction of the Russian ...

Communists staged their own parade in Moscow, with portraits of Lenin and Stalin. The party is now a pale shadow of its former self. A woman in Belarus poses by a flag with a portrait of Lenin.