Russian Revolution

"Russian Revolution" is the collective term for a pair of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. The Russian Empire collapsed with the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II, and the old regime was replaced by a provisional government during the first revolution of February 1917 (March in the Gregorian calendar; the older Julian calendar was in use in Russia at the time). In the second revolution that October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government. ...more

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Yevgeny Zamyatin
If circumstances should make it impossible (temporarily, I hope) for me to be a Russian writer, perhaps I shall be able, like the Pole Joseph Conrad, to become for a time an English writer... ("Letter To Stalin") ...more
Yevgeny Zamyatin

Якуб Колас
Ужо адзін той факт, сведкам якога быў Лабановіч яшчэ на Палессі і які глыбока запаў яму ў памяць — зʼяўленне поезда пасля доўгай забастоўкі чыгуначнікаў,— пахіснуў яго веру ў перамогу рэвалюцыі. Цяпер жа не падлягала сумненню, што ў барацьбе з народам брала верх самаўладства. Варта было абегла зірнуць на хроніку, што змяшчалася на старонках тагачасных часопісаў, на царскія загады, на розныя цыркуляры, каб пераканацца ў гэтым. Усё, што хоць у нязначнай меры ішло ад свабоды і прагрэсу, бязлітасна ...more
Якуб Колас, На ростанях

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