Petrograd Soviet

When the Soviet Union officially dissolved in December, 1991, many Westerners, Soviet dissidents, and Russian citizens believed that the feared Komitet gosudarstvennoy bezopasnosti (KGB) would be dismantled forever. Russian and Western observers viewed the toppling of the “Iron Felix” Dzerzhinsky statue in August 1991 as the symbolic end of the era of Soviet political police repression. Subsequently, Gorbachev appointed Vadim Bakatin to reform the KGB. But what constituted reform? In December…

Lenin and his Bolsheviks; a radical social group. They reached Petrograd in April 1917. The Russian government lead to a revolutionary socialists. They got taken over by the Bolsheviks. They took after Karl Marx’s ideas of government. They believed that the government should have control over everything. The people were…

the century have questioned the veracity of the narrative the Bolsheviks fed to the people of Russia and the rest of the world. These historians claim that the communist party has distorted the facts of said revolution to control masses during the Soviet reign. The overthrow of the Provisional Government in October 1917 was both a Bolshevik-engineered coup d’état and a popular revolution. Chroniclers have debated this statement owing to the fact that said people come from different…

an end to Russia’s involvement World War 1 to bring peace, to give land to the peasants, to give food to all and to give power to soviets with the…

country in the world, Russia had a lengthy and tough time to change and develop the country in 1917. The Russian Revolution of 1917 covers the major events such as the February Revolution and the October Revolution that result in the established of the Soviet Union. The Russian Revolution caused the encounter of labors and people. Their sacrifices and protests eventually made the revolution come true. Since the socialist government overthrew the czarist government, there were both political and…

were called upon to work in factories, which only increased their importance in society (Doc F). With an increasing importance, women even began to make their stand against the poor conditions of their countries, such as the women who protested in Petrograd, Russia over food shortages (Doc G). Women weren’t the only people in society to have their roles changed; the change of rulers to dictators was also another immediate effect. Germany had suffered much after the war not just from being…

Russia wasn’t prepared to win. As the war went on food became scarce, soldiers became tired and terrible defeats by Germany demonstrated the ineffectiveness of Russia under Nicholas. In March 1917, revolution broke out on the streets of Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) and Nicholas was forced to abdicate his throne later that month. That…

1) Describe the rule of Czars Alexander III and Nicholas II and the effect on Russian society. Be specific. The rules of Czar Alexander III and Nicholas II were cruel, oppressive, and completely autocratic. Czar Alexander III saw anyone that questioned his authority, spoke a language other than Russian, or did not worship the Russian Orthodox Church to be threat. He also forced stern censorship rules on written and/or published documents. He sent spies into schools and universities. The only…

pages—Stephen Kotkin, a history professor at Princeton, sets out to synthesize the work of these and hundreds of other scholars. Stephen Kotkin has a goal, to remove the fog of mystery and the mythology out of Soviet history forever. His goal in Stalin is to sweep the cobwebs and the mythology out of Soviet historiography forever. He dismisses the Freudians right away, refuting that nothing in or about Stalin’s early life was particularly unusual for a man of his age and background. Of…

Mensheviks at the Second Part Congress. He would split with them not long after. In 1905 Trotsky become the chairman of the St Petersburg Soviet, which would later be raided resulting in exile. Trotsky would then return to Russia in May 1917, only to join the Bolsheviks, the enemy of his former allegiance. Trotsky would be appointed to Chairman of the Petrograd Soviet by Kerensky in October of the same year. In November Trotsky became the People’s Commissar for Foreign Affairs,…