Russian Civil War - Intervention, Allies, Bolsheviks: The Allied governments now had to decide on their policy in the confused Russian situation. The original purpose of intervention, to revive an eastern front against Germany, was now meaningless. Russi
battle sites during the Crimean War (1853−56)Map showing battle sites and key locations in the Crimean War (1853−56). The regional rivalry between the Russians and the Turks persisted, however, and in theCrimean War(1853–56) it expanded into a broader European conflict. Anglo-French ...
Timeline of the Russian Revolution 1887 May 8 (May 20 NS):Lenin's brother, Alexander Ulyanov, is hanged for plotting to kill Czar Alexander III. 1894 October 20 (November 1 NS):Czar Alexander III dies after a sudden illness and his son,Nicholas II, becomes the ruler of Russia. ...
Donald Trump’s stunning political comeback has created an opening for Russia to shatter Western unity on Ukraine and redraw the global power map, according to several influential members of the Russian elite. In the corridors of power in Moscow, the win for Trump’s populist argument that Amer...
Donald Trump’s stunning political comeback has created an opening for Russia to shatter Western unity on Ukraine and redraw the global power map, according to several influential members of the Russian elite. In the corridors of power in Moscow, the win for Trump’s populist argument that Amer...
A map of Cholera diffusion by sanitary physician Scouttetten, 1831, of France, depicting the routes travelled by Asiatic cholera, including an unusual route across the Ural Mountains just north of India through Russia, the focus of his dissertation on the same. (This is covered in my historica...
World War IRussia's all-female “Battalion of Death” performed well during the June Offensive of 1917, but morale in the armed forces was collapsing around it. By 1918 Russia had exited World War I, and civil war had gripped the country. Maria Bochkareva, leader and guiding force of the...
Russian Revolution of 1905, uprising that was instrumental in convincing Tsar Nicholas II to attempt the transformation of the Russian government from an autocracy into a constitutional monarchy. For several years before 1905 and especially after the hum
How did the revolution lead to the Russian Civil War? What happened to the tsar and his family? Who was Leon Trotsky? Read Next Russian Revolution Timeline All 119 References in “We Didn’t Start the Fire,” Explained The Assassination of Leon Trotsky ...
World War IHistorical map of the Eastern Front during World War I.(more) Despite some reforms that followed the Russo-Japanese War, the Russian army in 1914 was ill-equipped to fight a major war, and neither the political nor the military leadership was up to the standard required. Neverthe...