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Nicholas II of Russia With the Family
Having married for love, Nicholas II was a family man. The royal couple moved their home to the suburbs of St Petersburg and paid rare visits to the capital. Four daughters – Olga, Tatiana, Maria and Anastasia – were born before a long-awaited son and heir, Alexei, arrived in August 1904. -
Women Forced to pull barges
Women were forced to drag heavy barges up steep hills and were overworked while doing so -
First Days of the October Revolution
7 November (25) 1917: The Bolsheviks seize control of Petrograd. 8 November (26 October) 1917: The Bolsheviks take control of the Winter Palace, the last remaining holdout of the Provisional Government. -
“Abdication of Nikolai II, March 15, 1917” The Times
After continued pressure from Russian citizens demanding change and a grim international and domestic environment, Nicholas II was forced to abdicate his throne. A series of events and proven inadequacies of the Tsar made the end of his rule inevitable. -
Lenin’s Call to Power
Having received news that the Russia's Provisional Government was about to raise the bridges spanning the Nava, Lenin hastily wrote, on 24 October 1917, his famous 'Call to Power' to the Soviet Central Committee. In it he urged that power be quickly seized from Alexander Kerenski's Provisional Government. -
Lenin’s Call to Power
On october 24, 1917, Having received news that the Russia's Provisional Government was about to raise the bridges spanning the Nava, Lenin hastily wrote, on 24 October 1917, his famous 'Call to Power' to the Soviet Central Committee. In it he urged that power be quickly seized from Alexander Kerenski's Provisional Government. -
Basement Where Romanov Family Killed
The royal family—and their slimmed down staff—spent 78 days in this fortified mansion turned prison, until that fateful morning of July 17, 1918, when they were woken up at 1 a.m. and ordered to dress and pack their belongings, then instead ferried into a room in the basement where they were met with a hail of bullets -
Declaration of the Rights of the Laboring and Exploited People
On January 3 (16), 1918, the All-Russian Central Executive Committee adopted the Declaration of Rights of Working and Exploited People - constitutional act of the Soviet Republic to legislate the achievements of the October revolution and proclaimed the basic principles and objectives of the socialist state. -
Lenin During the Russian Revolution 1917
lenin and his bolshevik party did succeed in seizing power and in founding the first communist regime. but the revolution did not spread into europe, as lenin had hoped, and his new russian society soon degenerated into a totalitarian state. November 6 and 7, 1917 -
Stalin's Purges
The Great Terror of 1938 november 17, also known as the Great Purge, was a brutal political campaign led by Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to eliminate dissenting members of the Communist Party and anyone else he considered a threat.