The first Bolshevik slogans were met half-laughingly—Tseretelli had so confidently thrown down his challenge the day before. But these same slogans were repeated again and again.

In “On Slogans,” written in July 1917, Lenin analyzes the shift in class and party relations following the counterrevolution against the July insurrection.

The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin believed the only way to fight religion was to ...

The editors worried that the Bolshevik slogans “may run over Russia like wildfire.” However, the editorial ended on a more hopeful note, saying that “eventually order will come out of chaos.” ...

A resurfaced video of New York City mayoral candidate Zohran Mamdani advocating “seizing the means of production” has sent ...

In backing the protest, the Bolsheviks' Petrograd Committee issued slogans for the immediate overthrow of the Provisional Government.

Nick Heath on the wave of rebellions and uprisings of rank-and-file Russian workers and peasants across the country in 1919-1921 against the Bolsheviks, who were consolidating their grip on power.

The Bolshevik revolution of 1917 was not the first attempt to overthrow the czar. Friction describes a decade-long effort by Russian activists to persuade the peasants to rebel.

Nine days later, the Bolsheviks' slogans promoted in this appeal won mass support at a giant demonstration called by the Petrograd soviet.

THE avowed purpose of the Bolsheviks in seizing power in Russia twenty years ago was the establishment of a proletarian dictatorship. It is true that Lenin's first objective was a world revolution, ...