By February 1917, millions had died at the front and there was near ... Every workplace elected delegates, with the Petrograd Soviet numbering thousands of mandated members. These Soviets represented ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke ... mainly because of the opposition of the Petrograd Soviet, the ...

On March 8, 1917, protests against food rationing broke out in Petrograd ... mainly because of the opposition of the Petrograd Soviet, the revolutionary Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council, they were ...

When UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson was gunned down in cold blood in New York City, progressive elites either cheered ...

The Smolny Institute, home to the Petrograd soviet and the Bolshevik Party ... against the young workers’ republic at one time or another between 1917 and 1921, in an attempt to crush it. That these ...

International Working Women’s Day was never meant to be a celebration of women’s achievements within capitalism—it was a call to revolution. Its origins lie in the struggles of communist and socialist ...

While Lenin masterminded the revolution from Geneva and Trotsky formed the first Workers’ Soviet in St. Petersburg ... brought about the 1917 short-lived Kerensky government and the Bolshevik ...

In Russia, Serge – he used the pen name from 1917 – encountered an explosion of revolutionary ... he set up the Museum of the Revolution in Petrograd, which gave him access to the archives of the ...

International Women’s Day and the Russian connection However, it was later decided that March 8 would be celebrated as International Women’s Day thanks to the ‘Bread and Peace’ protest in Russia’s ...

the anteroom to the centenary of the Russian revolutions of 1917, has already brought us several books that, in various ways, speak to the epochal events that brought down a 300-year-old regime and ...