In fact, as China Mieville writes in his new book October, there wasn't just one Russian revolution, but two. The first, in February 1917, abolished the Tsarist monarchy.

The Russian Revolution began in February 1917 with a mass revolt against the oppressive rule of the czarist dynasty and forced Nicholas II to abdicate in March.

In fact, after the revolution but before Stalinism tightened its grip on culture, there was a frenzied gasp of creative brilliance. Artistic, technological and political innovations clashed and co ...

The Russian Revolution of 1917. By Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College . I. Prologue . Russian socialists and their relationship to the war played a key role in setting the stage for ...

The Russian Revolution’s stance on the national question—that is, the nationalism of the oppressed, not the nationalism of the oppressor—cut deep into the consciousness of revolutionaries ...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was largely fought out over the question of which half of this "dual power" would replace the other, and the attitudes of the various political parties towards this ...

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the landmark events of the 20th century. Yet when compared to some of the century’s equally momentous developments­ such as the outbreaks of World Wars ...

What was the Russian revolution? Image source, Getty Images. Image caption, A boy in Moscow waves a communist flag during a rally to mark the 100th anniversary of the October 1917 revolution.

The Russian Revolution was perhaps the most important event in the history of revolutionary socialism and the struggle against capitalism. For the first time in October of 1917 workers took power on a ...

The very distance and strangeness of the Russian revolution, its resistance to easy analogy, is what makes it an ideal subject for 2017, when we only vaguely remember that women and men in history ...

A short history of the first unsuccessful Russian Revolution of 1905. Following the 'Bloody Sunday' massacre, a general strike paralysed the country and workers' and peasants' councils were set up.