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11 unusual facts about October revolution


Alexandre Havard

Alexandre Havard's father, Cyril Havard (1929-), is the son of Russian emigrants, Pavel Havard-Dianin (1903-1980) and Nina Anossova (1903-1998), who fled Saint Petersburg during the Bolshevik Revolution and settled, in the early 1920s, in Paris.

Alexey Eisner

After the October Revolution of 1917, his stepfather brought the young Eisner to the Princes' Islands.

Alfred Felton

Soon after the establishment of the Felton Bequest, the October Revolution occurred in Russia.

Bundism

Bundism was an important component of the social democratic movement in the Russian empire until the Russian Revolution of 1917; the Bundists initially opposed the October Revolution, but ended up supporting it due to the anti-Jewish pogroms by the White Army during the Russian Civil War.

Georgian Socialist-Federalist Revolutionary Party

After the 1917 October Revolution, the party formed an anti-Soviet bloc along with the Georgian Mensheviks, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation ("Dashnaks") and the Azeri Musavat Party.

Ion I. C. Brătianu

This situation was ended by the October Revolution in Russia and the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk between the Bolshevik government and the Central Powers: Romania saw itself without reinforcements, agreed to an armistice, and then signed the Treaty of Bucharest in May 1918.

October Revolution

The Moscow workers were supported by strikes and protest rallies by workers in Kiev, Kharkov, Nizhny Novgorod, Ekaterinburg, and other cities.

Percy Brookfield

In parliament he became a leading left-wing advocate and expressed sympathy for the Industrial Workers of the World and the Bolshevik Revolution.

Sardarapat, Armenia

In 1935, Sardarapat was renamed Hoktember, Armenian for October, in the honour of the October Revolution of 1917.

Soviet phraseology

An initial surge of intentional word coinage appeared immediately after the October Revolution.

Spiridon Drozhzhin

He welcomed the October Revolution, which he saw as the realization of the people's hopes and aspirations.


A Nomad of the Time Streams

In the final book, The Steel Tsar, Bastable witnesses an alternate 1941 where Great Britain and Germany became allies around the turn of the 20th century and thus neither a World War nor the October Revolution took place.

Aleksandr Askoldov

1967 was the year of the 50th anniversary of 1917 October Revolution and the events were to be presented in the Communist Party-mandated style of heroic realism.

Constituent assembly

The Russian Constituent Assembly was established in Russia in the wake of the October Revolution of 1917 to form a new constitution after the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government.

Elizaveta Polonskaya

On her final return to Petrograd in the spring of 1917, she had little time for either politics or literature; to support her family, which was in dire straits after her father's death, she took a job as assistant to a municipal charity doctor on Vasilyevsky Island, and was merely a spectator when the October Revolution occurred.

First Secretary of the Moscow Communist Party

The position was created on November 10, 1917, following the October Revolution and abolished on August 24, 1991 although most authority was lost in June that year to the position of Mayor of Moscow.

Gheorghe Cristescu

In this capacity, he became noted in debates over the imprisonment of Mihai Gheorghiu Bujor, a Romanian citizen who had joined the Russian Red Army in Bessarabia during the October Revolution, and who had been tried for treason.

Huseyn Khan Nakhchivanski

After the October revolution and the assassination of the head of Petrograd Cheka, Moisei Uritsky, Nakhchivanski together with some other prominent citizens of Petrograd was taken hostage by the Bolsheviks and executed in the Peter and Paul Fortress in January 1919.

Isidore Ramishvili

He briefly served as a member of the Executive Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, but the Bolshevik October coup forced him to return to his native Georgia, where he was elected to the Constituent Assembly of the Democratic Republic of Georgia in 1919.

Kerensky–Krasnov uprising

Following the October Revolution, Kerensky fled Petrograd and went to Pskov, where he rallied troops loyal to his cause in an attempt to retake the capital.

Liteyny Avenue

Soon after the October Revolution, the avenue was named Prospekt Volodarskogo after the Russian revolutionary V. Volodarsky.

Nadia Reisenberg

Due to the upheavals of the October Revolution, she and her family returned to Vilnius, then traveled to Warsaw and Germany.

Oddino Morgari

In 1911, Morgari inaugurated his activity as a "diplomat of Socialism" with a trip to the Far East, which would become his main preoccupation in the years of World War I; he took part in preparing the Zimmerwald Conference, celebrated the October Revolution and Bolshevist Russia, and signed the April 1, 1919 letter that declared the PSI adherence to the Comintern.

Oleg Pantyukhov

During the October Revolution he was the leader of the cadets who unsuccessfully defended the Kremlin from Bolsheviks.

Passport system in the Soviet Union

The foundations of the passport system of the Russian Empire, inherited by a Russian Republic in March, 1917 for a short period of 8 months, were scattered with the October Revolution, which dismantled all the state apparatus, including police as one of the backbone elements of this system.

Pavel Lazimir

Pavel Evgen'evich Lazimir (25 June 1891 in Novy Peterhof - 17 May 1920 Kremenchuk) was a prominent Left Socialist Revolutionaries who headed a soldier section of the Petrograd Soviet and was chairman of the Petrograd Military Revolutionary Committee during the October Revolution.

Representation of the People Act 1918

Quite apart from the evident injustice of withholding the vote from the very men who had fought to preserve the British political system and Empire, the overthrow of the centuries-old Romanov monarchy and the Russian nobility in March of the previous year, and the subsequent revolution of workers and soldiers in November, raised the spectre of a similar socialist revolution in Britain.

Rhoda Power

In 1917, she became governess to the daughter of a business family in Rostov-on-Don, Russia, where she became caught up in the October Revolution.

Rudolf Sikorski

Sikorski is in fact a Slavic (mainly Polish) name and was probably chosen to show incompetence of censors, especially considering that this name may be a hidden allusion to Igor Sikorsky, a Russian aircraft inventor who emigrated to the United States after the October Revolution of 1917 and designed the world's first helicopter there in 1939.

Russian Orthodox Cemetery, Nice

3.000 Russians, including the descendants of Russian immigrants and refugees after the October Revolution and the members of royal families were buried at the cemetery such as Galitzine, Naryshkin, Obolensky, Volkonsky, Tsereteli and Gagarin family.

Samson Kutateladze

His father, Semen Samsonovich, had been a nobleman; he was before the Great October Revolution a student at Petrograd University and then an army officer.

The Great Dawn

The Great Dawn was part of a group of films made in honor of the twentieth anniversary of the October Revolution, which also included Lenin in October and The Vyborg Side; since Sergei Eisenstein's October, it became customary to release pictures about the revolution with each decade anniversary to it.

Turukhansky District

Joseph Stalin lived in exile on the territory of the modern district before the October Revolution.

Vera Karalli

After fleeing to the West following the October Revolution, Karalli made her final film appearance in the 1921 Robert Wiene-directed German silent drama Die Rache einer Frau opposite Olga Engl and Franz Egenieff, credited as "Vera Caroly".

Villa Senar

The villa was designed to remind Rachmaninoff about the estate of Ivanovka the family had in southern Russia before the October Revolution and their migration to Western Europe in 1918.

Vladimir V. Tchernavin

In the period from 1912-1917 Tchernavin studied at St. Petersburg University but his studies were interrupted by the war and the October Revolution.

Yury Annenkov

Later that year, Annenkov staged and designed another mass show, The Storming of the Winter Palace, part of the October Revolution anniversary celebrations in Palace Square, Petrograd.