100 Years Ago, The October Revolution, November 7, 1917: History of the Russian Revolutions and Civil War
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Posted by: Sammi Ibrahem,Sr
By Julien Paolantoni
First published on November 7, 2015
Related: The Roots of Russia: From the Early East Slavs to the Grand Duchy of Moscow (part 1); A Superpower Rises: Foundation of the Russian Empire (part 2), The Road to the Revolutions (part 3)
Introduction
Part 3 of this series set out the political, economic and intellectual context leading to the Russian Revolutions. This one is an attempt to explain the dynamics of the revolutionary era: how did factors as diverse as the country’s participation to WWI, constitutional reforms and economic conditions combine to enable the Bolsheviks to take down the tsarist regime?
The February Revolution (March 1917 in the Gregorian calendar) was a revolution focused around Petrograd (now St. Pe...