5677 AM · 1917 CE · world history
The Russian Revolution
The fall of the monarchy and the Bolshevik seizure of power reshape the twentieth century.
In February, hunger and war-weariness sweep away three hundred years of Romanov rule. The Provisional Government neither leaves the war nor redistributes land, and in October the Bolsheviks take power almost unopposed. Civil war, terror and famine follow, and the first avowedly communist state is born.
Sources
Documents of the period
- documents and chronicles of the period — Nicholas II’s act of abdication and the first Soviet decrees
Scholarship
- studies in European history — from February to October, the civil war, and the birth of the USSR
Basis: documents and evidence.