As a novelist, Pasternak is also known as the author of Doctor Zhivago (1957), a novel which takes place between the Russian Revolution of 1905 and the Second World War. Doctor Zhivago was rejected for publication in the USSR and the manuscript had to be secretly smuggled to Italy for ...
This Russian Revolution glossary contains definitions of events, terms and concepts relevant to Russia under tsarism, the Provisional Government and the Bolsheviks. Words from A to L. Non-English words are italicised. These definitions have been written by Alpha History authors. agent provocateur An...
In recent years, studies of the Russian Revolution have become increasingly nuanced, often on the basis of recently opened regional archives. Nonetheless more work remains to be done on the impact of the revolution at the regional level, and even documents published in some cases in the Soviet ...
There is just a handful of them, weazened and undersized, but into the ranks of these big peasant soldiers they plunge, crying out - "Take nothing. The Revolution forbids it. No looting. This is the property of the people." (14) John Reed, was in Petrograd when the Women's ...
The Russian Revolution was an important and powerful historical event with implications lasting at least throughout the 20th century. This lesson...
rights was broached. Perhaps most fascinatingly in the case of Alexandra Kollontai, an extraordinary firebrand who pushed feminism to the heart of the Bolshevik agenda during the Russian revolution – only to see it rolled back again by Stalin and her considerable achievements wiped from the ...
last war, could not resist the revolutionary war, and today the 2nd Ukrainian Soviet Army has the good fortune to present you, dear teacher, one of those terrible weapons. We are sending you one of these tanks, which will be the best proof of the power of the proletarian revolution…”....
I. Lenin played an important role in the development of the literary language and especially the scientific and publicistic style. The Great October Socialist Revolution and the building of socialism in the USSR exerted an appreciable influence on the Russian language. The vocabulary changed and ...
The Seeds of Revolution The ideas of Karl Marx found there way to Russia, and the workers began to think that they could run their own lives…and their own country. The idea of a society ruled by the Proletariat “the workers” began to grow. ...
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