Everything you need to know about the Russian Revolution in 13 minutes. This video covers all the major events of Russia's TWO revolutions of 1917– the February Revolution that ended Tsarist rule in ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government ... particularly in Lenin and Trotsky. Throughout the Civil War, Lenin provided the energy and drive needed to inspire success ...

However, as the Civil War developed ... Most of Russia's railways were in this area. This made communication between the various battlefronts much easier. Trotsky was able to move troops and ...

Metcalf was anxious to purchase for Harvard the personal papers of a Russian ... year Civil War. A brilliant orator and military strategist, as well as an outstanding literary critic, Trotsky ...

Later, in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, a new generation of historians sought to deal objectively and honestly with the October Revolution and its greatest figures, including Leon Trotsky.

Lenin returned to Russia in April ... they instigated a civil war with the aim of destroying the revolutionary regime. The Red Army was formed, under the leadership of Trotsky, to defend the ...

The streaming company Netflix has bought the rights to the Russian series Trotsky, a representative ... the Russian civil war, and so on. The series earned three TEFI awards from the Russian ...

The ice axe that was plunged into Russian revolutionary Leon Trotsky's skull during his gruesome murder in Mexico on August 20, 1940, is today among the prized exhibits at Washington's International ...