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07.11.2007, 05:55
It was in Petrograd (now known as St Petersburg), that Vladimir Lenin and the Bolsheviks decided to start the Revolution. It was there, in October 1917, that the Winter Palace was stormed and power seized by the Second All-Russia Congress of Soviets.
08.11.2007, 07:03
In the last report on the Bolshevik Revolution, RT looks at the spread of the Revolution from Petrograd to Moscow and beyond, and its impact on Russia and the world.
07.11.2008, 16:20
Russia’s oldest ‘first-wave’ emigrant has died in Paris after a long fight against illness. Andrey Shmeman, who was 88, was among those who fled during the country’s civil war after the October Revolution of 1917.
06.11.2007, 07:38
In 1917, a coup d'etat known as the Bolshevik Revolution ended the rule of the Russian Provisional Government and marked the start of the Soviet era. From Saint Petersburg, the then capital of Russia, to remote villages in the forests, there were many sec
Published: 07 November, 2008, 06:09
November the 7th 1917 was one of the most significant days in Russian history, when Lenin and the Bolshevik movement decided the timing was right for revolution. The Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace – which was then the seat of the governme
