October Revolution 1917-1920

The October Revolution was the culmination of popular sentiment that the provisional government was not changing Russia's imperialist ways from the autocratic reign of the Tsar. The unelected body had to failed to secure peace, instead opting for participation in further military campaigns which provoked outrage amongst soldiers and workers alike.

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Poster: 'Crossed Out by October 1917'

Source: Marx Memorial Library (MML), Reference: PO-0001

In this 1933 poster about 1917, Vitkor Deni characterised the figures that were wiped out by both revolutions. In the first panel, you can see the Tsar,...

Poster: 'October Hurricane'


Source: Marx Memorial Library (MML), Reference: PO-1030

In this poster by...

The Cruiser 'Aurora', pictured on the River Neva

8. The cruiser Aurora on the river Neva which fired the shot that was the signal for insurrection

Source: Marx Memorial Library (MML)
Reference: PHOTO_SUB_SOVIET_UNION_1917_REVOLUTION+CIVIL_WAR_PERIOD...

Extract: Six Red Months in Russia

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Source: Marx Memorial Library (MML)

LOUISE BRYANT

Louise Bryant was born in Nevada, USA in 1885. She met John Reed in 1915 and moved to New York City where she wrote for ‘The Masses’, the paper with which Reed and many other radicals were associated. Bryant...

Soldiers at the Winter Palace

10. HenrySara MRC – soldiers at the Winter Palace

Source: The Henry Sara Collection at the MRC

Pamphlet: 'Red Russia: The Triumph of the Bolsheviki' by John Reed, 1919

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Source: MRC

JOHN REED

John Reed was an American journalist who published his eyewitness account of the October Revolution, 'Ten Days that Shook the World', in 1919. Along...

Alexander Belyshev, the former commissar of the Aurora cruiser

9. Sputnik-Alexander Belyshev, the former commissar of the Aurora cruiser

Source: Sputnik

Bolshevik activists in the Red Guards headquarters, February 1st, 1918

27. Sputnik_Bolshevik activists in the Red Guards headquarters 01.02.18

Source: Sputnik

Vasily Kuprevik, participant in the storming of the Winter Palace

12. Sputnik – Vasily Kuprevik participant in the storming of the Winter Palace

Source: Sputnik

Poster: Year of the Proletarian dictatorship, October 1917-1918

28. Sputnik_Year of the Proletarian dictatorship 1918

Source: Sputnik

Petrograd’s armed workers pose at an armoured vehicle, 25 October 1917

15. Scrss – Petrograd’s armed workers pose at an armoured vehicle 25 Oct 1917
Source: SCRSS

Stalin, Lenin and Kalinin at the 8th Party Congress (18th-23rd March, 1918)

30. Stalin, Lenin and Kalinin at the 8th Party Congress 1918 (18-23 March)

Source: Marx Memorial Library (MML)
Reference: PHOTO_SUB_SOVIET_UNION_1917_REVOLUTION+CIVIL_WAR_PERIOD

Engraving from 1918: Capture of the Winter Palace

13. Sputnik -Engraving Capture of the Winter Palace 1918

Source: Sputnik

One of the first Red Army battalions, 1918

31. One of the first Red Army battalions 1918

Source: Marx Memorial Library (MML)
Reference: PHOTO_SUB_SOVIET_UNION_1917_REVOLUTION+CIVIL_WAR_PERIOD

Red Guard in Moscow, October 1917

16. Sputnik_Red Guard in Moscow Oct 1917

Source: Sputnik

Lenin at the unveiling of a temporary monument to Marx on Revolution Square, 1918

32. Sputnik_Lenin at the unveiling of a temporary monument to Marx on Revolution Square 1918

Source: Sputnik

Statue of Lenin in front of the Smolny Institute

41. Scrss statue of Lenin in front of the Smolny

Source: Sputnik

Painting: Great October Revolution 1917

17. Scrss Great October Revolution 1917

Source: SCRSS 

Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov at the inauguration of a monument to Marx, Moscow 1918

33. Scrss Lenin and Yakov Sverdlov at the inauguration of the monument to Marx, Moscow 1918

Source: Sputnik

Postcard: 'Long Live May 1 - International Labour Day!'

42. 1st May
Source: Marx Memorial Library (MML)
Reference: PHOTO_SUB_SOVIET_UNION_1917_REVOLUTION+CIVIL_WAR_PERIOD

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