The Bolsheviks were labeled as German spies and were outlawed. Lenin temporarily fled to Finland and Minister-Chairman Alexander Kerensky concentrated power in his hands. After the attack from the ...

What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...

A figure of unrelenting discipline and vision, Lenin engineered the Bolshevik Revolution, reshaping global power structures and planting the seeds of the Soviet Union. To the East, he was a ...

So did the 40 delegates of the “Left” Social Revolutionaries who had decided to collaborate with the Bolsheviks. Lenin was later to describe them as “little fools.” Convulsive Hands.

In 2016, Putin broke with custom and denounced both the revered Bolshevik leader and his government for their brutal repressions. He accused Lenin of planting a "time bomb" beneath the state.

With no one apparently willing to seize power, Lenin and his Bolsheviks, a group of revolutionary extremists who wanted to sweep away the old regime and enact a system where the working class held ...

Lenin returned to Russia in April and, repudiating in practice the longstanding Bolshevik program of the democratic dictatorship, called for the working class to oppose the Provisional Government ...

This year marks the 107 th anniversary of the Bolshevik revolution of 1917. In the evening of October 25, 1917, the Winter ...

Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace and seize power, promising the Russian people a dictatorship of the proletariat and a new era of classless equality ...