The Bolsheviks and Vladamir Lenin led the uprising - commonly known as Red October - which overthrew the Tsarist rule at the helm of Russia A CENTURY ago Russia was on the brink of a revolution that ...

A 1917 telegram sent by Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin has been sold at auction in London for 50,000 pounds ($77,600). The historically significant telegram was sold at Christie's auction house on ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov Lenin was a Russian revolutionary and politician who led the October Revolution in 1917, overthrowing the Provisional Government that had been established after the February ...

The Government, for its part, was perhaps in its most hopeless state since its formation. The Kadets, or the Constitutional Democrats, had walked out just two days prior over policy disagreements on ...

Just over 100 years ago, Russian Emperor Nicholas II abdicated his throne and his vast empire ceased to exist, setting off decades of world-shaking change. Yet this year, not a single Russian ...

Some historians speculate that the Easter Rising in Ireland in 1916 helped push Lenin to take action and orchestrate the October Revolution. In 1917, amid the chaos and carnage of World War I, Russia ...

A CENTURY ago Russia was on the brink of a revolution that would change the course of the country forever. The Bolsheviks and Vladamir Lenin led the uprising – commonly known as Red October – which ...