Marked Petrograd

SubjectIn outline · lessons being written

The Russian Revolution

In 1917 war and hunger brought down the Russian tsar. Later that year the Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, seized power, won a brutal civil war and founded the Soviet Union.

Place
Petrograd · The Winter Palace · Yekaterinburg · MoscowEurope, Asia
Laid out as
A revolutionHow things were before, the moment it turned, and how things were after.
Lessons
6 planned, none written yet

The lessons we plan

Titles may change as they are written

BeforeAn empire ruled by a tsar.

  1. IRussia at war
  2. IIFebruary: the tsar falls
  3. IIIOctober: the Bolsheviks
  4. IVThe tsar’s family
  5. VCivil war
  6. VIThe Soviet Union

AfterThe world’s first communist state.

Still to come

The people and objects these lessons will cover

People

  • Nicholas II
  • Vladimir Lenin
  • Leon Trotsky
  • Alexandra Kollontai
  • Joseph Stalin

Objects

  • Revolutionary posters
  • The cruiser Aurora

Where it sits

All of human history, era by era

Early human ancestryOur species and the Old Stone AgeFarming and the New Stone AgeFirst cities and the Bronze AgeThe Iron Age and growing statesThe classical worldAfter the empiresMedieval networks and empiresOceans crossedRevolutions and the first factoriesIndustry, empire and world warThe world since 1945

1917 to 1924. Each era is drawn the same width, so the earliest are squeezed: era II alone is over 300,000 years.

Nearby in time and place

This page is an outline. The summary above is a starting point; each lesson, when it is written, will give its sources, its pictures and where historians disagree. Spotted a mistake?