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There are 9 item(s) tagged with the keyword "Revolution".
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- 1. Death of a Dynasty
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Who really killed the Romanovs? Read about the survivors of the royal household.
- By Linda DeLaine
- 2. The Big 100
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This year marks the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution. Here's what that looks like, plus gas, cats, and seals (state seals, that is).
- By Alice E.M. Underwood
- 3. Revolution for Tiny Tots
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“It was a lot of fun during the Rivolushun. And I won’t never forget the Russian Rivolushun.” In which we look at the 1917 revolution through the eyes of schoolchildren at the time.
- By Evgeny Lukyanov
- 4. Revolution!
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On February 23, 1917 the Revolution came to Petrograd. The Tsar abdicated and a long year of turmoil and political upheaval lie ahead...
- By Tamara Eidelman
- 5. Maria's War: A Soldier's Autobiography
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This astonishingly gripping autobiography by the founder of the Russian Women’s Death Battallion in World War I is an eye-opening documentary of life before, during and after the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 6. Ra-ra-Rasputin
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Who was Rasputin? Why has his name become synonymous with the idea that the Russian monarchy was doomed? That is a mystery worth exploring today, on the 100th anniversary of his murder.
- By Tamara Eidelman
- 7. The Other Russian Revolution
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What do you know about the Russian Revolution of 1905? Are you surprised to hear that there was one in 1905, not just in 1917? Then this article is for you!
- By Eugenia Sokolskaya
- 8. Reds, Whites, Greens, and... Blacks?
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The Russian Civil War was a messy affair, as civil wars so often are. Think you can identify all the colors? (Hint: Black is the color of anarchism.)
- By Eugenia Sokolskaya
- 9. Alexander Herzen
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The Russian writer Alexander Ivanovich Herzen was born in Moscow on March 25, 1812 (April 6, New Style). Thanks to a famous phrase from Lenin’s “In Memory of Herzen” – “The Decembrists awakened Herzen. Herzen began the task of revolutionary agitation.” – everyone who grew up in the Soviet Union knew Herzen’s name, whether or not they had ever read a line of his work.
- By Ilya Ovchinnikov
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