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Russia Turns Red

In November 1917, the Bolsheviks seized power in Russia and created Soviet Russia. Led by Vladimir Lenin, they promised bread, land, peace, and a fairer society for workers and peasants. Their victory ended the old government and opened a new political era.

Key Facts

Date: 7 November 1917, or 25 October in the old Russian calendar.

Leader: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party.

Method: They took power by force with the Red Guards militia.

Target: The weak Provisional Government failed to solve Russia’s crises.

Promises: Immediate peace, land reform, economic control, and a Constituent Assembly.

Support: They won backing from many workers, soldiers, and soviets.

Result: Russia withdrew from World War I.

Aftermath: The Bolsheviks became the Communist Party, and only one party was allowed.

Historical Context

Russia was in chaos in 1917. Tsar Nicholas II had already abdicated, but the new government could not fix war, hunger, inflation, or unrest. The Bolsheviks used this anger to present themselves as the only group offering real change.

Historical Significance

The revolution transformed Russia from an empire into the world’s first major socialist state. It also helped shape the rise of the Soviet Union, one of the most powerful states of the 20th century. Its success showed how war, crisis, and clear political messaging could overturn an old order fast.

Learn More: Bolshevik Revolution: When Russia Became a Socialist State in 1917

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The Count from 2025 - The Morganatic Mirror (on Wattpad) https://www.wattpad.com/1634799338-the-count-from-2025-the-morganatic-mirror?utm_source=web&utm_medium=tumblr&utm_content=share_reading&wp_uname=historylover444 St. Petersburg, 2025. When a time machine is stolen by the brilliant and dangerous Dimitri Reznikov, university student Alexei Serovarin follows his mentor into the winter of 1916. Disguised as a wounded Imperial officer, Alexei infiltrates the world of the Romanovs to stop history from being rewritten. But the closer he grows to Grand Duchess Tatiana Nikolaevna, the harder it becomes to remember why he came. Some timelines are meant to be preserved. Others are worth destroying for love.

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Today we celebrate the New Hieromartyr John Kochurov, Archpriest of Chicago and St. Petersburg and First Hieromartyr of the Bolshevik Yoke in 1917. May he intercede for us always + #saint #john #saintjohn #stjohn #hieromartyr #chicago #newmartyr #petersburg #russianrevolution #bolshevik #orthodox #saintoftheday (at Pushkin, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/CVqP6a3sZ7I/?utm_medium=tumblr

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Reposted from @redblacknotesaus On the 25th of August, 1918 the First Pan-Russian Conference of Anarcho-Syndicalists was held in Moscow, Russia. Though belated in forming a national organisation, the anarcho-syndicalist movement would attempt to form a coherent federation. Within Russia itself the syndicalists would exert more influence than other anarchist tendencies, if we exclude the Nabat in the Ukraine.  The Russian anarcho-syndicalists believed in focusing energies upon the industrial proletariat, direct action as a methodology, and the independence of labour movements from political parties. Though they had been influential in the 1905 uprising, at the outbreak of the Russian revolution in 1917 the anarcho-syndicalists found themselves largely unprepared. They had failed to build an organisation of the political maximum that could guide them in their influence upon the working class, preferring to rely upon propaganda alone. Though they initially closed ranks to defend the soviets against the counter-revolution, as the Soviets slowly became rubber stamps for the Bolshevik bureaucracy the syndicalists turned to the Factory Committees as the new potential for workers' democracy. They hoped that by emphasising direct control of workers in the workplace, an alternative to the Soviets could be built up. They advocated for a ‘Centralism based on Federalism’, rather than a military centralism subservient to the party. The Anarcho-Syndicalists were often behind the establishment of “Red Guard” detachments, groups of armed workers who defended factories and workplaces taken over by the working class. They published a paper, Golos Truda, based in Moscow. The paper was banned by the Bolsheviks in August 1918, though replaced by a semi-clandestine “Volny Golos Truda” (The Free Voice of Labour). This would last until March 1921, when Lenin declared war on all “petit-bourgeois” elements, and suppressed this newspaper of factory workers. The anarcho-syndicalist movement would be finally snuffed out under Stalin in 1929. #onthisday #onthisdayinhistory #anarchism #anarchist #anarchosyndicalist #syndicalism #socialism #russia #russianrevolution #history - #regrann (hier: Moskau - Москва) https://www.instagram.com/p/CEUoJSxqIU4/?igshid=nos62jjukj2e

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Northern Eurasia 103 years ago today: February Revolution (08 Mar 1917) https://buff.ly/2NQrLJL By February 1917 (according to the old style Julian calendar still in use in Russia), the Tsarist system was on the brink of collapse. Russia's troops were demoralized, its economy was crumbling, and discontent was everywhere. On 8 March (23 February old style), riots broke out in Petrograd, the capital, and within two days the city had been almost completely closed down. Tsar Nicholas II's attempts to end the disorder simply resulted in troop mutinies and the disintegration of the police force. On the 15th, the Tsar abdicated and the Provisional Government of Prince George Lvov, Paul Milivkov and Alexander Kerensky took over. #1917 #20thcentury #march #cartografia #cartography #firstworldwar #greatwar #historias #historic #historical #histories #historyclass #historyfacts #historymatters #historynerd #mapmaking #maps #march8 #northerneurasia #russianrevolution #russianempire #russianhistory #worldhistory #worldwar1 #worldwari #ww1 #ww100 #wwi #todayinhistory #thisdayinhistory (at St. Petersburg, Russia) https://www.instagram.com/p/B9dxjVAgGWd/?igshid=f5zd6rbce64t

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Moscow: Communist youth take to the streets in a preparatory action for the Nov. 7 Red March to mark the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution, October 15, 2017.

Though these and many other revolutionary youth were excluded from the current World Festival of Youth & Students in Sochi by the manipulation of Russia’s capitalist government, the struggle will not stop!

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