Russian Revolution

Japanese soldiers and sailors disembark at Vladivostok, 22 August 1918. Of all the foreign interventions into the Russian civil war, the one from Japan was by far the largest, growing to 70,000 troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war

Victims of the February Revolution are carried through the Field of Mars in Petrograd

Russia's Civil War Why the 1917 uprisings descended into disaster

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Antony Beevor on the Russian revolution . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

An 18th Century cartoon satirises reactions to Louis XVI's attempt tp flee France. The french Revolution shows what can happen when the state fails on a catastrophic scale

Are revolutions doomed to failure?

The execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Revolution

What is a revolution?

Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov

Vladimir Lenin and his lust for power

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Catherine Merridale on Lenin. (Image by Getty Images)

Editor’s pick: Lenin’s revolutionary train journey . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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Robert Service answers key questions about the Russian Revolution. (Image by Getty Images)

The Russian revolution: everything you wanted to know . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The last Russian royal family, Tsar Nicholas II and Tsarina Alexandra and their five children, were shot and bayonetted to death by their Bolshevik guards in the early hours of 17 July 1918. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

The legacy of the Romanovs: how is the last Russian royal family remembered in Russia?

Lady Sybil Grey, an indomitable Englishwoman who, as a nurse in Russia, led a field hospital and had a grandstand view of the February 1917 revolution that toppled the tsar. (Illustration by Sue Gent for BBC History Magazine)

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The Library Lady Sybil Grey: a lady in the line of fire

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The Romanovs, 1913: Nicholas II with his wife and children. (Photo by Mondadori Portfolio via Getty Images)

Quiz The Romanovs . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Striking workers carry banners through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) at the start of the February Revolution that brought the fall of the Russian monarchy the next month. (Getty Images)

Russia’s revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, depicted in an undated Communist poster. (Photo by Universal History Archive/Getty Images)

The red dawn: the October Revolution

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Czar Nicholas II with family. (Getty Images)

Books interview with Robert Service: “Nicholas II brought the Russian Revolution upon his own head” . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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