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9 unusual facts about Russian Revolution


Bernard Lecache

Lecache applauded the 1917 Russian Revolution and was an early member of the PCF, joining in 1921.

Charlie Atherton

Outside of sports, Charlie was an accomplished musician and writer who witnessed the Russian Revolution, World War I, and the Nazis rise to power first hand.

Gurlen

After the 1917 Russian Revolution the Khanate of Khiva was abolished, and Gurlen was eventually included into the Uzbek Soviet Socialist Republic.

Lev Lunts

He started his writing career at the age of 18, at the time of the Russian Revolution and Civil War.

Paul Nazaroff

Paul Nazaroff (Pavel Stepanovich Nazarov) (died 1942) was a Russian geologist and writer who was caught up in the Russian Revolution, and became the leader of a plot to overthrow Bolshevik rule in Central Asia.

Russian Revolution

It was these views of Martov that predominated in a manifesto drawn up by Leon Trotsky (a major Bolshevik revolutionary) at a conference in Zimmerwald, attended by thirty-five Socialist leaders in September 1915.

During the Civil War, Nestor Makhno led a Ukrainian anarchist movement, the Black Army allied to the Bolsheviks thrice, one of the powers ending the alliance each time.

Less than one year later, the last area controlled by the White Army, the Ayano-Maysky District, directly to the north of the Krai containing Vladivostok, was given up when General Anatoly Pepelyayev capitulated in 1923.

Tatiana Shchepkina-Kupernik

In total she translated about 60 plays into Russian, mostly during the period after the Russian Revolution.


Ahmad Shah Qajar

In 1917, Britain used Persia as the springboard for an attack into Russia in an unsuccessful attempt to reverse the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Bublyk Kuzma Pavlovych

In 1917–1923 years he was witness and partly participant of events of Russian Revolution and Civil War in the central Eurasia, on the territories of former Russian Empire, in new-born Ukrainian and Russian Republics, which in 1922 became part of Soviet Union.

Bureaucratic collectivism

After the war, the Russian Revolution and the rise to power of Joseph Stalin in the Soviet Union, Hugo Urbahns and Lucien Laurat both began to critique the nature of the Soviet state in a similar manner.

Chinsegut Hill Manor House

During the Russian Revolution, Raymond was appointed as the Commissioner of the American Red Cross Mission to Russia where he met with numerous Russian dignitaries including Alexander Kerensky, Leon Trotsky, and Vladimir Lenin.

Cyrillus Kreek

Kreek studied trombone and composition at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory from 1908 to 1916 in the years immediately prior to the Russian Revolution, then worked as music teacher first in his native Haapsalu (in western Estonia), at the Tartu Music College and later at the Tallinn Conservatory.

Georgian Jews

After the October 1917 Russian Revolution threw out the Tsar's government and replaced it with the Bolsheviks, Georgians clamored for independence from their occupiers.

Golden Age of Freethought

The Russian Revolution and the scare of Communism in the early 20th century would soon come about, and with that the force of religious and government backed opposition.

Haymarket Books

Haymarket also publishes accounts of various revolutions such as Alexander Rabinowitch's The Bolsheviks Come to Power, Building the Party and All Power to the Soviets by Tony Cliff about the Russian Revolution, along with books about the Spanish Revolution and the German Revolution.

Ivan Sytin

After the Russian Revolution, Sytin's printing house was nationalized but he decided against emigrating and died in obscurity in his small flat on Tverskaya Street at the age of 83.

National Independence Day

The autumn of 1918 marked the end of World War I and the defeat of all three occupiers – Russia was plunged into the confusion of revolution and civil war, the Austria-Hungary fell apart and went into decline and the German Reich bowed to pressure from the forces of the Entente.

National Library of Russia

In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the institution was placed under the management of Ernest Radlov and Nicholas Marr, although its national preeminence was relinquished to the Lenin State Library in Moscow.

November 1916

The novel picks up on the brink of the Russian Revolution, depicting characters from all walks of life — from soldiers and peasants to Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarina Alexandra Feodorovna, and Lenin.

Rosina Lhévinne

Together they lived and taught in Moscow, Tbilisi, Georgia and later in Berlin before emigrating after World War I and the Russian Revolution to New York, where they joined the faculty of the Institute of Musical Art which later became The Juilliard School.

Sigurd Simensen

He also chaired the national association of worker's councils which sprang up in the same year, post-Russian Revolution.

Titanic: Adventure Out of Time

If the player manages to retrieve all four objects, history is altered with World War I, the Russian Revolution, and World War II never occurring — without The Rubáiyát and/or the diamonds, the Black Hand is not financed and their plan to assassinate Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria (which would have sparked World War I) fails.

Under Jakob's Ladder

Communist rule was established as a result of the 1917 Russian Revolution, and Joseph Stalin came to power in the late 1920s.

Vera Nabokov

With the turmoil of the Russian Revolution, the family moved to Moscow, and after fleeing through Kiev, Odessa, Istanbul, and Sofia, arrived in Berlin, where they joined the large Russian émigré population.

Vladimir Highway

After the Russian Revolution, the Bolsheviks were keen to get rid of the notorious name, rebranding the Moscow section of the road as Shosse Entuziastov ("Enthusiasts' Highway").

Vlas Doroshevich

Even though he was rich, Vlas welcomed the rise of the Bolsheviks and the Russian Revolution.


see also

Aboyeur

After two seasons in Russia he disappeared during the upheavals of the Russian Revolution and Civil War.

Boris Uvarov

From 1915 he worked in Tiflis, which after the Russian revolution of 1917 had become the capital of the short-lived Democratic Republic of Georgia.

George Shanks

Sharman Kadish - Bolsheviks and British Jews: The Anglo-Jewish Community, Britain, and the Russian Revolution - (London: Frank Case, 1992)

Jesup North Pacific Expedition

Waldemar Bogoras's grammar of Chukchi, Koryak and Itelmen (misleadingly titled just Chukchee) was delayed by the onset of the First World War and Russian Revolution.

Kahn Lectures

The first of these scholars was the Russian classical scholar Michael Rostovtzeff, who had already settled in the United States in 1918, after the Russian revolution.

Krymov

Aleksandr Krymov, Russian general of World War I and Russian Revolution times

Lyalovo

Before the Russian revolution, the estate belonged to the famous family of Morozovs — one of the richest Russian merchant families.

Nicolaï van Gilse van der Pals

His father Hendrik van Gilse van der Pals, from a merchant family of Rotterdam, was a rubbermanufacturer and honorary consul for the Netherlands in St Petersburg until he (temporarily) settled on his estates in Finland because of the Russian revolution.

Winnipeg General Strike

The Canadian prime minister attended the conference at Versailles and was concerned solely for his government, due to the Russian revolution that began more than a year before the settlement and concern that it would potentially spread to North America.

Yevno Azef

Anna Geifman Entangled in Terror: The Azef Affair and the Russian Revolution.