For better or worse the events of the Russian revolution and its aftermath influenced virtually all the areas of anti-parliamentary communist thought discussed in Chapters 1–4 of this account. Particular aspects of the revolution's impact—such as the way in which perceptions of the soviets' ...
AFTERMATH. The Russian Revolution (1917) was successful in part because of the First World War, public discontent, and the vulnerability of the Russian monarchy. The last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II, was succeeded by the short-lived Provisional Government (July–November 1917), which was overthr...
was a Russian poet whosenovelDoctor Zhivagohelped win him theNobel Prizefor Literature in 1958 but aroused so much opposition in theSoviet Unionthat he declined the honour. An epic of wandering, spiritual isolation, and love amid the harshness of theRussian Revolutionand its aftermath, the novel...
a revolutionary strike movement and other measures of defiance against the tsarist government. In the aftermath, Trotsky was jailed and brought to trial in 1906. While incarcerated, Trotsky wrote one of his major works, “Results and Prospects,” setting forth his theory of permanent revolution. ...
Anti-Jewish Violence and Revolution in Late Imperial Russia: Odessa, 1905 Violence against Russian Jews again reared its ugly head in the aftermath of 1917, when peasant rebels and anti-Bolshevik armies roamed the countryside and massacred tens of thousands of Jews during the Civil War. 1... ...
Primary sources of information about Akhmatova's life are relatively scant, as war, revolution and the Soviet regime caused much of the written record to be destroyed. For long periods she was in official disfavour and many of those who were close to her died in the aftermath of the ...
not to pass a certain point, according to Sergei Witte, and at some point, troops opened fire on the demonstrators, causing between 200 and 1,000 deaths. The event became known as Bloody Sunday and is considered by many scholars as the start of the active phase of the revolution. ...
Before the Russian Revolution of 1917, there was a previous revolution in 1905. Czar Nicolas II reluctantly allowed the election of an organization called the "Gosudarstvennaya Duma" or '' State Assembly; '' promising it would be a representative assembly that the monarchy required approval of ...
(1959) had been released, but these beautiful pictures still lacked something that would instill a sense of decisive reform and renewal. Shpalikov carried out a tiny revolution in Soviet cinema — not alone, of course, but he was its leader. He contributed an open sense of form, showing ...
By focusing on the writings of one of the prominent writers of the early Soviet era, this article seeks to shed some new light on the role of Japan and China as "others" in Russian national identity in the aftermath of the Bolshevik Revolution. The article critically examines and compares ...