Russian Revolution

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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The Russian revolution and myths of ancient Egypt . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Photograph of Vladimir Lenin, 1901. (Photo by Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

First World War

Books interview with Catherine Merridale: “This was the most important railway journey made in the 20th century”

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Lenin and the Russian revolutions . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The family of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia, c1910.

Books interview with Helen Rappaport: the Romanov sisters . This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The statue Worker and Kolkhoz Woman in Moscow, Russia. (Photo by Getty Images)

Communist Moscow