This fascinating story begins with a sketch, rich in personal detail, of the glancing mutual impact of World War 1, and the two instalments of the Russian Revolution.

She claims to have been a member of the Russian aristocracy before the Russian Revolution and suffered greatly as a result, but how much of that story is true is an open question.

Kerensky served as the second Prime Minister of the Russian Provisional Government until overthrown in the October Revolution.

During the 1917 Russian Revolution, Nimzowitsch was in the Baltic war zone.

The Russian Revolution of February 1917 had a great effect in Bulgaria, spreading antiwar and anti-monarchist sentiment among the troops and in the cities.

Many Germans of left-wing views were influenced by the cultural experimentation that followed the Russian Revolution, such as constructivism.

He attempted to make his poetry more comprehensible by reworking his earlier pieces and starting two lengthy poems on the Russian Revolution of 1905.

The Bolsheviks came to power in Russia during the October Revolution phase of the Russian Revolution of 1917, and founded the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic which would later in 1922 become the chief constituent of the Soviet Union.

As the Russian Revolution of 1905 progressed, Bolsheviks, Mensheviks and smaller non-Russian social democratic parties operating within the Russian Empire attempted to reunify at the Fourth ( Unification ) Congress of the RSDLP held at Folkets hus, Norra Bantorget in Stockholm, April 1906.

Since that time, the term Bolshevik has been regarded as obsolete, and relevant only to the pre-Revolutionary times, during the Russian Revolution itself and the Russian Civil War which followed.

Category: Political parties of the Russian Revolution

* Russian Revolution of 1917

* Chamberlin, W. H. ( 1935 ) The Russian Revolution 1917-1921, 2 vols.

* Figes, Orlando ( 1997 ) A People's Tragedy: The Russian Revolution 1891-1924.

The party led the 1917 October Revolution that overthrew the Russian Provisional Government and claimed to have established the world's first socialist state.

Amanullah came to power just as the entente between Russia and Britain broke down following the Russian Revolution of 1917.

Meanwhile, between World War I and the Russian Revolution, the film industry, and the infrastructure needed to support it ( e. g., electrical power ), had deteriorated to the point of unworkability.

It had a profound impact on the Russian Revolution and its ideas inspired Mao Zedong in his efforts at constructing a communist state in China.

Thus he supported the Irish independence movement and the anti-czarist Russian Revolution of 1917, but did not approve of Vladimir Lenin.

This favorable image of America in the minds of Russian men and women is still there despite years of energetic anti-American propaganda ''

His visit to Warsaw, Poland, after the Russian journey in the summer of 1959 was expected to win the Polish vote which, in several cities, is substantial.

The weekly loss is partly counterbalanced by 500 arrivals each week from West Germany, but the hard truth, says Crossman, is that `` The closing off of East Berlin without interference from the West and with the use only of East German, as distinct from Russian, troops was a major Communist victory, which dealt West Berlin a deadly, possibly a fatal, blow.

Pauling's estimate of 200 megatons yield from the present series of Russian tests will probably turn out to be too high, but a total of 100 megatons is a distinct possibility.

With detectors sensitive to three mass intervals and based on a few counts, the second and third Russian space probes indicate that the flux of the smallest particles detected is less than that of larger ones.

The Russian experimenters claim that only a small fraction of the impulse from the sensors is caused by the incident momentum with the remainder being momentum of ejected material from the sensor.

There is a difference in the experimental arrangement, in that the U.S. microphones are attached directly to the vehicle skin while the Russian instruments are isolated from the skin.

A significant reduction in the voume of store information is thus realized, especially for a highly inflected language such as Russian.

Speaking with `` great earnestness '', he said: `` For the Russian people, the question of Poland is not only a question of honor but also a question of security.

the conflict is not Boris versus Grigori or Shuiski or even the ghost of the murdered child, but Boris versus the Russian people.

The Soviet Embassy is popularly regarded as Russian espionage headquarters.

`` This is Russian money '', said Mervin Griffith-Jones for the attorney general's office.

Oh-the-pain-of-it, that convention of Russian ballet whereby the girls convey the idea that they are all the daughters of impoverished Grand Dukes driven to the stage out of filial piety, is totally absent from the Kirov.

It is truly odd and ironic that the most handsome and impressive film yet made from Miguel De Cervantes' `` Don Quixote '' is the brilliant Russian spectacle, done in wide screen and color, which opened yesterday at the Fifty-fifth Street and Sixty-eighth Street Playhouses.

Since Russian was being spoken instead of Spanish, there is no violation of artistry or logic here.

He is a member of the French Academy of Sciences and several foreign academies and societies, including the Danish Academy of Sciences, Norwegian Academy of Sciences, Russian Academy of Sciences, and US National Academy of Sciences.

The name " Alaska " ( Аляска ) was already introduced in the Russian colonial period, when it was used only for the peninsula and is derived from the Aleut alaxsxaq, meaning " the mainland " or, more literally, " the object towards which the action of the sea is directed ".

) The Russian abacus is often used vertically, with wires from left to right in the manner of a book.

Anna Sergeyevna Kournikova (; born 7 June 1981 ) is a Russian retired professional tennis player.

A variation of a White Russian made with skim milk is known as an Anna Kournikova.

A notable exception is the Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich, whose symphonies use the theme of angst in post-World War II compositions depicting Russian strife during the war.

By the 16th century, the rulers of Moscow considered the entire Russian territory their collective property.

Soviet constitutionalism was the collective government form of the Russian dictatorship of the proletariat, the opposite of the government form of the dictatorship of capital ( privately-owned means of production ) practised in bourgeois democracies.

Gorbachev was born in Stavropol Krai into a peasant Ukrainian – Russian family, and in his teens operated combine harvesters on collective farms.

* The Russian Revolution ( 1917 ) is the collective term for the series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which destroyed the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Soviet Union.

Kozma Prutkov is an example of collective pen name in Russian literature.

It has been used to transform many state farms into UBPCs, similarly to the transformation of Russian sovkhozes ( state farms ) into kolkhozes ( collective farms ) after 1992.

Pussy Riot is a Russian feminist punk-rock collective that stages illegal protests in Moscow against the Putin regime and the status of women in Russian society.

Historian of Russian Jewry John Klier writes in Russians, Jews, and the Pogroms of 1881-1882 that " By the twentieth century, the word ' pogrom ' had become a generic term in English for all forms of collective violence directed against Jews.

The collective took its name from a 1919 poster by Russian constructivist artist El Lissitzky, Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge.

Created before the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party ( RSDLP ), the Bund was a founding collective member at the RSDLP's first congress in Minsk in March 1898.

However, Russian policy shifted toward weakening Islam by introducing pre-Islamic elements of collective consciousness.

The Russian mafia (, Russkaya mafiya ) is a term used to refer to the collective of various organized crime syndicates originating in the former Soviet Union.

Nitzer Ebb was seen as a totality, comprising music, art and culture, manifesting itself as a Nitzer Ebb Produkt ( an homage to the band Kraftwerk ), which saw all advertisements, fliers, record sleeves, letterheads, T-shirts, and other objects all sharing a collective identity that was heavily influenced by Russian Constructivist art, Italian Futurism, totalitarian imagery, and Expressionism.

The collective initially disbanded in 1875 over territorial disputes in the Balkans as Austria-Hungary feared that Russian support for Serbia might ultimately ignite irredentist passions in its tenuously grasped Slav populations.

The title was used during the Provisional Government for regional heads of administration, but it is mostly associated with a number of Cheka and military functions in Bolshevik and Soviet government military forces during the Russian Civil War ( the White Army widely used the collective term " bolsheviks and commissars " for their opponents ) and with the later terms People's Commissar ( or narkom ) for government ministers and political commissar in the military.

The 1920s were characterized by spontaneous and apparently voluntary emergence of collective farms, which included an updated version of the traditional Russian “ commune ”, the generic “ farming association ” ( zemledel ’ cheskaya artel ’), the association for joint cultivation of land ( TOZ ), and finally the kolkhoz.

When the Russian Superleague became the Kontinental Hockey League, the collective bargaining agreement between the KHL and its players introduced a draft, starting from the very first season of the league.

Collectives featured during both the Russian revolution when they were set up by the state in all major communities, and the French Revolution when the Louvre in Paris was occupied as an artist collective.

Since he started his literary career translating works of literary giants, such as Victor Hugo, Oscar Wilde and Russian writers such as Chekov and Gorky, their collective influence made him search for his own moorings.

In Russian arctic peoples were forcably relocated to Kolchoz ' es ( collective communities ) by the state between 1927-1940.

The Baltic governorates (), originally the Ostsee governorates (, ) is a collective name for the administrative units of the Russian Empire set up at the territories of Swedish Estonia, Swedish Livonia ( 1721 ) and, afterwards, of Duchy of Courland and Semigallia ( 1795 ).

: Russian: barakti ( to flounder, from барахтаться barahtat ' sja ), gladi ( to iron, from гладить gladit '), kartavi ( to pronounce a guttural R, from кapтaвить kartavit '), deĵori ( to be on duty, from дежурить dezhyrit '), kolbaso ( a sausage, from колбаса kolbasa ), krom ( except, from кроме krome ), kruta ( steep, from крутой krutoj ), nepre ( without fail, from непременно nepremenno ), vosto ( a tail, from хвост hvost ), the pet-name suffixes-ĉjo and-njo ( from-чка-čka and-нька-n ' ka ), the augmentative suffix-eg-( from-яга-jaga ), and perhaps the collective suffix-aro, if this is not from Latin.

Romantic nationalists, the Slavophiles hailed the mir as a purely Russian collective, both ancient and venerable ; free from what they considered the stain of the " bourgeois " mindset found in western Europe.