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IMAGO International History, Archive, Russian Revolution, October Revolution 1917

Dec 5, 2024

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  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Soviet poster, Lenin points the way forward Soviet poster showing Lenin behind a red banner, pointing the way forward for the October Revolution. Date: circa 1917 Copyright: Copyrightx(c)Geminix2023.xCredit:xGemini 10639002
  • Russia: Soviet Russia is a Camp Under Siege . Revolutionary poster, Dmitry Moor (Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov), c. 1920 The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR (Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic).<br ><br > The Tsar was forced to abdicate 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).<br ><br > In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government. Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
  • Russia Soviet Union: V I Lenin (1870 - 1924) at the desk in his study at the Kremlin, 16 October 1918 Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, born Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 21 January 1924) was a Russian communist revolutionary, politician and political theorist.<br ><br > Lenin served as the leader of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic from 1917, and then concurrently as Premier of the Soviet Union from 1922, until his death. Under his administration, the Russian Empire disintegrated and was replaced by the Soviet Union, a single-party constitutionally socialist state; all wealth including land, industry and business were nationalised.<br ><br > Based in Marxism, his theoretical contributions to Marxist thought are known Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
  • Russia: Leon Trotsky, founder and first leader of the Red Army, aged 21 in a police mug shot, 1900 Leon Trotsky (Russian: Лев Рави́Рович ТÑÄо́ÑÜкий; born Lev Davidovich Bronshtein (7 November 1879 21 August 1940) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and theorist, Soviet politician, and the founder and first leader of the Red Army. Trotsky was initially a supporter of the Menshevik Internationalists faction of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party. He joined the Bolsheviks immediately prior to the 1917 October Revolution, and eventually became a leader within the Party. During the early days of the Soviet Union, he served first as People s Commissar for Foreign Affairs and later as the founder and commander of the Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
  • Russia: Did You Volunteer? (Trotsky Wants You for the Red Army). Revolutionary poster, Dmitry Moor (Dmitry Stakhievich Orlov), 1920 The Russian Revolution is the collective term for a series of revolutions in Russia in 1917, which dismantled the Tsarist autocracy and led to the creation of the Russian SFSR.<br ><br > The Tsar was forced to abdicate 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).<br ><br > In the second revolution, during October, the Provisional Government was removed and replaced with a Bolshevik (Communist) government. Copyright: xxPicturesxFromxHistoryx
  • RUSSIA: WOMEN S BATTALION. Soldiers of the Russian Women s Battalion of Death recuperating in a Russian hospital, possibly wounded during the October Revolution. Photograph, c1917. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0528790
  • RUSSIA: STUDENTS, 1917. Workers studying at a Center for Liquidating Illiteracy some time after the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. Copyright: xGRANGERx xGRANGERx 0045950
  • Bolshevik revolutionaries, October Revolution, 1917 (b w photo) XJF368478 Bolshevik revolutionaries, October Revolution, 1917 (b w photo) by Russian Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: part of the Russian Revolution of 1917; Bolshevik troops eventually took control of the Winter Palace in Petrograd; lead to the fall of the Tsarist autocracy and the rise of the Soviet Union; man in the car could be Vladimir Lenin (1870-1924) Bolshevik Party leader;). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 368478
  • Bolshevik revolutionaries, October Revolution, 1917 (b w photo) XJF368477 Bolshevik revolutionaries, October Revolution, 1917 (b w photo) by Russian Photographer (20th century); Private Collection; (add.info.: part of the Russian Revolution of 1917; Bolshevik troops eventually took control of the Winter Palace in Petrograd; lead to the fall of the Tsarist autocracy and the rise of the Soviet Union;). Copyright: xBridgemanxImagesx 368477
  • Russian Alexei Alexeivitch Brusiloff (1861-1926) wounded during the russian revolution in october 1917, here at professeur Roodnyoff s hospital, seated is his wife 1685429 Russian Alexei Alexeivitch Brusiloff (1861-1926) wounded during the russian revolution in october 1917, here at professeur Roodnyoff s hospital, seated is his wife; (add.info.: Russian Alexei Alexeivitch Brusiloff (1861-1926) wounded during the russian revolution in october 1917, here at professeur Roodnyoff s hospital, seated is his wife); PVDE. Copyright: xPVDEx xBridgemanxImagesx 1685429
  • Civil war 5670569 07.09.1918 Civil War and foreign intervention in Russia (1917-1922). Nadezhda Krupskaya at a demonstration in the 250th rifle regiment leaving for the Southern Front. RIA Novosti Russia Copyright: xRIAxNovostix
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED The Bolshevik Coup in Russia; At the Winter Palace: the bedroom of Grand Duchess Tatiana, daughter of Nicolas II , 1917. From L Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2 L Illustration, Paris, 1924 . Copyright:xThexPrintxCollector HeritagexImagesxUnknownx IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:ThexPrintxCollector HeritagexImagesxUnknownx IMAGO
  • RECORD DATE NOT STATED Les Emeutes de juillet 1917 a Petrograd; Un episode de la Guerre de Rues, le 17 juillet , 1917. Russian Revolution: the Petrograd Riots of July 1917; an episode of the Street Wars, 17 July. (Rioters on the Nevsky Prospect come under machine gun fire). From L Album de la Guerre 1914-1919, Volume 2 L Illustration, Paris, 1924 . Copyright:xThexPrintxCollector HeritagexImagesxViktorxBullax IMAGO, ! ACHTUNG: AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright:ThexPrintxCollector HeritagexImagesxViktorxBullax IMAGO
  • February Revolution of 1917 8252559 25.02.1917 February bourgeois-democratic revolution, February 23 - March 3 (March 8-16, new style), 1917. A rally of workers of the Petrograd Metal Plant. Archive of the Leningrad Metal Plant. Alexey Varfolomeev St.Petersburg Russia Copyright: xAlexeyxVarfolomeevx
  • Great October Socialist Revolution, 1917 8251568 26.10.1917 Great October Socialist Revolution. Petrograd, October 25 26 (November 7 8, New Style), 1917. A Red Guards unit before going on a combat mission on the Military Revolutionary Committee s orders. RIA Novosti St.Petersburg Russia Copyright: xRIAxNovostix
  • Aurora cruiser 2921577 26.08.1987 Aurora is a Russian protected cruiser of the 1st rank. It was floated out in 1900 and took part in the Battle of Tsushima. Aurora became internationally renowned for making a false shot symbolising the start of the 1917 October Revolution. During the Great Patriotic War, the ship took part in defending Leningrad. After the war finished, it continued to function as a training accomodation ship for the Russian fleet and is now part of Russia s cultural heritage. RIA Novosti Sputnik Russia Copyright: xRIAxNovostix
  • Great October 1917 Socialist Revolution in Moscow 6685877 12.11.1917 Royal emblems and regalia, removed from the facade of the Grand Kremlin Palace, the former residence of the Russian Tsars in the Kremlin. This 1917 photo is part of the album Moscow and Muscovites, stored at the State History Museum. Evgenyi Leonov Russia Copyright: xEvgenyixLeonovx
  • November 1918, Moscow, Red Square. Lenin delivering a speech on the occasion of the 1st anniversary of the Great October Revolution Moscow, Red Square. Lenin delivering a speech on the occasion of the 1st anniversary of the Great October Revolution November 7, 1918 U.S.S.R. Copyright: xPhoto12 ArchivesxSnarkx DFS09A10_109
  • Red soldiers guarding the Smolny Palace during the October Revolution 1917, Russia Federation Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1302895
  • The Guards of Smolny Institute in Petrograd, the Headquarters of the Revolution October 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies., Petrograd Russia Federation Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesScrss007862
  • The Great October Revolution Lenin, Stalin and a few other party leaders. 1917 A picture by Form Paintings. Shown in the picture are Dzerzhinsky, Stalin, Sverdlov, Trotsky and Lenin. Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies., Russia Federation Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesScrss007845
  • Demonstrators at the crossroads of Nevsky Prospect and Sadovay Street in Petrograd, fleeing as government troops fire into the crowd. 17 July 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies, Russia Federation Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesScrss002326
  • Russian Revolution. The first Petrograd volunteer detachment. October 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies, Russia Federation Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesScrss002323
  • V.I. Lenin makes a speech to the Bolsheviks at the Smolny Institute, St. Petersburg, Russia. Painting by Vladimir Serov. 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies, Russia Federation Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesScrss002303
  • Patrol of the Putilov Plant Works during the October Revolution. October 1917 Supplied By: SCRSS - Society for Co-operation in Russian & Soviet Studies, Russia Federation Copyright: Topfoto !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchivesScrss002301
  • Photograph of the patrol of the October Revolution . The revolution was led by the Bolsheviks, who used their influence in the Petrograd Soviet to organize the armed forces. Dated 1917 WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_068_0412
  • The Red Army was made up of the son of the Bulgarian working people who fought heroically for the cause of the Great October Socialist Revolution was seen. Dated 1917 WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchivesWHA_033_0588
  • Russian Revolution, October 1917. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov - 1870-1924) Russian revolutionary. Undated Communist poster. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchives0510001814
  • Russian Revolution, October 1917. Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (Ulyanov - 1870-1924) urging on the forces of the Revolution. Undated Communist poster. WHA !ACHTUNG AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! Copyright: WHA UnitedArchives0510001813
  • ITAR-TASS: RUSSIA, MOSCOW. Chairman of the Council of People s Commissars of the Russian SFSR Vladimir Lenin, Chairman of the All-Russian Central Executive Committee Yakov Sverdlov, member of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party Mikhail Vladimirsky and Chairman of Mossovet Petr Smidovich (L-R) at the Revolution Square during the unveiling of the Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels monument. TASS_1542349
  • Imperial Russian Navy . The Pallada - class protected cruiser , Aurora at sea . On 25th October , 1917 a refusal of an order by the crew of the Aurora to take to sea sparked the Russian revolution . 1914 Mono Negative !AUFNAHMEDATUM GESCHÄTZT! UnitedArchives1231353
  • Navy cruiser Aurora, 1917. 591830
  • Moscow. A military unit marches downtown Moscow prior to its transportation to the battlefront in June 1917. Reprophoto 270021
  • The First World War. Russian and Austrian soldiers at the front after the February Revolution. 1046582