At the demand of soldiers, the Petrograd Soviet on March 14 (March 1, O.S.) issued “Order No. 1,” which Trotsky described as “the single worthy document of the February revolution.” To the garrison of ...

Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and Police in Petrograd, by Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Belknap/Harvard University Press, October 2017, 368 pages Around midnight on April 16, 1917, ...

Waving goodbye to cheering crowds in New York, and parting with promises to bring down the Provisional Government and stop the war, Trotsky sets sail for Russia via Oslo aboard a Norwegian liner.

As the detail of familiar objects under a microscope recasts preexisting impressions, Rabinowitch's week-by-week and, in places, day-by-day reconstruction of Bolshevik politics from the first to the ...

28 Grand Duke Mikhail Aleksandrovich’s Renunciation of the Throne ...

8 November 1917 The Maximalists have occupied the Central Telegraph Office, State Bank and Marie Palace Maximalist rising in Petrograd - Parliament building seized Petrograd, Wednesday Noon An armed ...

Erik Sass is covering the events of the war exactly 100 years after they happened. This is the 255th installment in the series. After the surprising Italian victory during the Sixth Battle of the ...

In November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized Petrograd and overthrew the Provisional Government, but their grip on Russia was far ...