Russian Revolutionin a sentence
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During the Russian Revolution, Nicholas II abdicated, ending 300 years of Romanov rule. He, his wife, and children were subsequently executed.
Russian Revolution = 1917 revolution against czarist rule which lead to a provisional government
- Two communist revolutionary groups maneuvered for power during and after the Russian Revolution. In 1922, the Bolsheviks (reds) defeated the Mensheviks (whites) placing Lenin (and upon his death Stalin) in charge.
- Even Karl Marx and the Russian Revolution.† (source)
- The Russian Revolution.† (source)
- There were intense arguments about the Russian revolution and a political party in Germany called the National Socialist German Workers' Party.† (source)
- As I sit across from him, telling my face to smile, my mind recites the suicide note of Vladimir Mayakovski, poet of the Russian Revolution, who shot himself at the age of thirty-six: My beloved boat is broken on the rocks of daily life.† (source)
- Stormgren could see at once that he was now confronted by men of a much higher calibre, and the group opposite him reminded him strongly of a picture he had once seen of Lenin and his associates in the first days of the Russian Revolution.† (source)
- World War I was seven years past, the Russian Revolution was eight years old, and the music on my grandmother's wind-up Victrola was "Yes, We Have No Bananas.† (source)
- Thus Greece gave way to Rome, and the Russian Enlightenment has become the Russian Revolution.† (source)
- What the acceptance of the isolation of the Russian Revolution forces Stalin to do, Hitler is compelled to do by his acceptance of the contradictions of capitalism and his efforts to freeze them.† (source)
- In trying to grasp why Communists hated intellectuals, my mind was led back again to the accounts I had read of the Russian Revolution.† (source)
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- Unfortunately, since the recent European War and the Russian Revolution, travel and exploration in Tibet have been almost completely held up; in fact, our last visitor, a Japanese, arrived in 1912, and was not, to be candid, a very valuable acquisition.† (source)
- Kennicott apologized for her: "Carrie's nuts about this Russian revolution.† (source)
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