He was a major figure in the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War ( 1918 – 20 ).

Another of Eisenstein's films, 1927's October, depicted the Bolshevik perspective on the October Revolution, culminating in the storming of the Winter Palace which provided Soviet viewers with the victory that the workers and peasants lacked in Battleship Potemkin, ending with Lenin ( as played by an unknown worker ) declaring that the government is overthrown.

** Britain, France and Russia agree to give Constantinople and the Bosporus to Russia in case of victory ( the treaty is later nullified by the Bolshevik Revolution ).

The victory of the Russian Communist Party in the Bolshevik Revolution of November 1917 was felt throughout the world.

With the Bolshevik victory in Russia the party was changing ; at the Congress of Tours in December 1920, the Socialists split into two ideological components: the French Communist Party ( SFIC later PCF ), inspired by Moscow, and the more moderate French Section of the Workers ' International ( SFIO ).

After the victory of the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia at the end of 1917 and the termination of World War I the following year, the BSP emerged as an explicitly revolutionary socialist organisation.

This was fulfilled when Nariman Narimanov, leader of Bolshevik Azerbaijan issued a declaration celebrating the " victory of Soviet power in Armenia ," proclaimed that both Nakhchivan and Zangezur should be awarded to the Armenian people as a sign of the Azerbaijani people's support for Armenia's fight against the former DRA government:

After the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War, most of the Kadet leadership was forced to emigrate and continued publishing newspapers abroad, mainly in Paris, until World War II.

However, following the decisive Soviet victory at the Battle of Stalingrad and the resulting dire German military situation, Hitler and Nazi propaganda proclaimed the war to be a German defence of Western civilization against destruction by the vast " Bolshevik hordes " that were pouring into Europe.

In late 1920-early 1921, after the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War, Krestinsky supported Leon Trotsky's faction in an increasingly bitter dispute over the direction of the country.

After the Bolshevik victory, which Axelrod called a " historical crime without parallel in modern history ", he toured the world rallying socialist opposition to the Bolsheviks.

On August 31, the day following the victory over Kornilov, the Petrograd Soviet endorsed the Bolshevik policy.

Some members of the party later participated in the White Movement after the October Revolution and during the Russian Civil War ( 1918-1920 ), becoming active in White émigré circles after the Bolshevik victory in 1920.

The western Allies, however, chiefly France and Britain, did not want to see Russia lose territory and, following Germany's collapse in 1918, forced Skoropadsky to propose Ukrainian federation with Russia — thereby causing his fall from power and eventual Bolshevik victory in Ukraine, much as also happened in Georgia and Azerbaijan.

In January 1918, in the aftermath of the Bolshevik victory in Russia and the establishment of a Revolutionary Socialist regime there, the SPLA issue a second manifesto of the organization.

After the Bolshevik victory in the Russian Civil War and re-annexation of Azerbaidjan in 1920, he fled to Paris.

Although the Bolshevik leadership decided to form a separate party, convincing pro-Bolshevik workers within Russia to follow suit proved difficult.

* Twenty Years in Underground Russia: Memoirs of a Rank-and-File Bolshevik, by Cecilia Bobrovskaya

After the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917, at the age of 22, Vertov began editing for Kino-Nedelya (, the Moscow Cinema Committee's weekly film series, and the first newsreel series in Russia ), which first came out in June 1918.

In 1917, Mussolini as leader of the Fasci of Revolutionary Action praised the October Revolution that brought Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik movement to power in Russia, as Mussolini himself desired a revolution in Italy to bring the Fascists to power.

A major event that greatly influenced the development of fascism was the October Revolution of 1917 in which Bolshevik communists led by Vladimir Lenin seized power in Russia.

To that end, they had arranged for the safe conduct of Lenin and his comrades from exile in Switzerland to Petrograd in April 1917, and financed the Bolshevik party, believing Lenin to be the most powerful weapon they could use against Russia.

Building Socialism in Bolshevik Russia.

* 1918 – Ukraine declares independence from Bolshevik Russia.

* 1918 – Emperor Nicholas II of Russia and his immediate family and retainers are murdered by Bolshevik Chekists at the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

However, he was refused entry to Russia and went on to Stockholm and produced the journals Russische Korrespondenz-Pravda and Bote der Russischen Revolution to publish Bolshevik documents and Russian information in German.

Furthermore, council communists held a critique of the Soviet Union as a capitalist state, believing that the Bolshevik revolution in Russia became a " bourgeois revolution " when a party bureaucracy replaced the old feudal aristocracy.

Nevertheless, the circumstances of the Red vs. White Russian Civil War, and terrorism by the opposing political parties, and in aid of the White Armies ' counter-revolution, led to the Bolshevik government banning other parties ; thus, the vanguard party became the sole, legal political party in Russia.

Li authored a series of articles in New Youth on the subject of the October Revolution which had just occurred in Russia, during which the communist Bolshevik Party under the leadership of Vladimir Lenin ( 1870 – 1924 ) had seized power.

Bolshevik emigres briefly poured into Russia to take part in the revolution.

A key aspect that affected the Bolshevik regime was the backward economic conditions in Russia that were considered unfavourable to orthodox Marxist theory of communist revolution.

* 1917 – Joseph Stalin enters the provisional government of Bolshevik Russia.

The very first politburo was created in Russia by the Bolshevik Party in 1917 to provide strong and continuous leadership during the Russian Revolution occurring during the same year.

To end Russia ’ s participation in the First World War, the Bolshevik leaders signed the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk with Germany in March 1918.

On July 17, 1918, Bolshevik authorities acting on Yakov Sverdlov orders in Moscow and led locally by Filip Goloschekin and Yakov Yurovsky, shot Nicholas II, his immediate family, and four servants in the cellar of the Ipatiev House in Yekaterinburg, Russia.

While resistance to the Red Guard began on the very next day after the Bolshevik uprising, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk and the political ban became a catalyst for the formation of anti-Bolshevik groups both inside and outside Russia, pushing them into action against the new regime.

Examples are Ashenden or: the British Agent ( 1928 ) by W. Somerset Maugham, about counter-revolutionary British espionage against Bolshevik Russia, and The Mystery of Tunnel 51 ( 1928 ) by Alexander Wilson whose novels conveyed an uncanny portrait of the first head of the Secret Intelligence Service, Mansfield Smith-Cumming, the original ' C '.

Council communists described the Soviet Union as a capitalist state, believing that the Bolshevik revolution in Russia became a " bourgeois revolution " when a party bureaucracy replaced the old feudal aristocracy.

In April 1917 Germany allowed Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to return to Russia from his exile in Switzerland, and offered him financial help.

The Decree called " upon all the belligerent nations and their governments to start immediate negotiations for peace " and proposed an immediate withdrawal of Russia from World War I. Leon Trotsky was appointed Commissar of Foreign Affairs in the new Bolshevik government.

While he served his term in the Gulag, attitudes changed and by 1937 even hard-line Bolshevik planners admitted that the church must be spared.

He served as director of the Saint Petersburg Conservatory between 1905 and 1928 and was also instrumental in the reorganization of the institute into the Petrograd Conservatory, then the Leningrad Conservatory, following the Bolshevik Revolution.

He joined the Bolshevik Party in 1917, and in 1918 he was recruited into the Cheka, the Bolshevik regime's political police, where he served until 1922.

He was a signatory to joint statement issued with other officers and advisors who had served in Russia, who on February 23 1920 indicated their support of peace between the British and the Bolshevik Russia.

Bryant, her mother, was the widow of John Reed who wrote Ten Days That Shook the World while living in Moscow through the Bolshevik revolution ; while Bullitt, her father, served as Ambassador to the Soviet Union and France under President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

Between 1918 and 1919, he served on the Overman Committee, investigating seditious German and Bolshevik activities.

He served during the Japanese Siberian Intervention of 1918 – 1919 in support of White Russian forces against the Bolshevik Red Army.