Russian Revolution
Tsar's final collapse
The Russian Revolution refers to the upheavals of 1917 that ended tsarist rule and eventually established Soviet communism.
The February Revolution forced Tsar Nicholas II to abdicate; the October Revolution brought Lenin's Bolsheviks to power.
The term sometimes encompasses the broader period of civil war and consolidation through the early 1920s.
The Russian Revolution transformed global politics for the rest of the century.
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- Central CommitteeCommunist party's governing body
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
- Red GuardsMaoist youth paramilitary movement
Cheka · commissar · cadre · Soviet · party congress · agitprop · Pravda · underground cells
Final Romanov ruler
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
- Romanov dynastyRussia's final imperial house
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
- autocracyRule by one
World War I · Cossacks · bread riots · war weariness · Rasputin · food shortages
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
- socialismCommunal economic control
Das Kapital · means of production · Communist Manifesto · Leninism · class consciousness · anti-capitalism
Soviet ground forces
- White ArmyAnti-communist Russian forces
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
- CominternSoviet-led communist alliance
foreign intervention · famine · emigration · Treaty of Brest-Litovsk · one-party state · GPU
Russian imperial residence
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- PetrogradRussian city name, 1914-24
- armed uprisingViolent revolt against authority
- Red GuardsMaoist youth paramilitary movement
seizure of power · storming · coup · railway stations · power transfer
Lenin
Soviet state founder
- TrotskyExiled Soviet revolutionary leader
- Central CommitteeCommunist party's governing body
- PolitburoCommunist party's governing body
Red Guards · Cheka · commissar · cadre · Soviet · party congress · agitprop · Pravda · underground cells · faction
Tsar Nicholas II
Final Romanov ruler
- abdicationFormal surrender of power
- Romanov dynastyRussia's final imperial house
- DumaMoscow's legislative chamber
autocracy · World War I · Cossacks · bread riots · war weariness · Rasputin · food shortages
Marxism
Class-based revolutionary philosophy
- class struggleConflict between economic groups
- proletariatLaborers lacking capital ownership
- bourgeoisieCapitalist ownership class
socialism · Das Kapital · means of production · Communist Manifesto · Leninism · class consciousness · anti-capitalism
Red Army
Soviet ground forces
- White ArmyAnti-communist Russian forces
- collectivizationForced communal ownership transfer
- nationalizationGovernment acquisition of industry
Comintern · foreign intervention · famine · emigration · Treaty of Brest-Litovsk · one-party state · GPU
Winter Palace
Russian imperial residence
- insurrectionViolent uprising against authority
- PetrogradRussian city name, 1914-24
- armed uprisingViolent revolt against authority
Red Guards · seizure of power · storming · coup · railway stations · power transfer
- Revolutionsoverthrow, uprising, revolt, insurrection, rebellions
- Red RevolutionsMao, Lenin, Bolsheviks, Red Guards, Red Army
- historyancient civilizations, past events, historian, epochs, era
- 20th Century HistoryWorld War I, WWI, Great Depression, Treaty of Versailles, Roaring Twenties
- European HistoryRoman Empire, Byzantine Empire, Holy Roman Empire, Napoleonic Wars, Middle Ages
- Political HistoryBritish Empire, Roman Empire, Ottoman Empire, World War I, Magna Carta
Russian RevolutionVelvet Revolution
Czechoslovakia's nonviolent 1989 transition
constitutional reform · Glorious Revolution · negotiated settlement · status quo · incrementalism
Russian Revolutioncounter-revolution
Revolt against recent upheaval
Thermidorian Reaction · March on Rome · Bourbon Restoration · privatization
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