Articles related to "October Revolution"

It's existed in various versions for years. Now, Eisenstein's classic is unleashed in its most definitive form to date.

Like many 20th century art movements, Constructivism grew out of a time of great change, and artist Aleksandr Rodchenko contributed to the revolution.

Despite rumours, myths, and legends that a couple of the princesses survived and escaped it now appears that the entire Romanov family was summarily executed.

The Bolsheviks came to power under Lenin's leadership and seized the Provisional Government in Petrograd in 1917.

Apart from the rural "petty bourgeoisie," poor peasants constituted the greatest mass to be brought under the control of Lenin's new socialist order.

The architecturally minded can revel in the magnificence of the St. Petersburg Winter Palace, built between 1754 and 1762.

Eighty-nine years after the Bolshevik Revolution (and 16 years after the U.S.S.R. collapsed), Jove is releasing a 4-DVD box set of Soviet propaganda cartoons.

Many a live was lost in the brutal street battles of post WW I Germany. One of the most prolific groups of that era was the Rotfront - The Red Frontline.

The process of abstracting of forms found its extreme in Constructivism, the avant-garde art movement of the post-revolutionary Russian and later Soviet era.

In bringing art to the masses, the Russian Constructivists created a blueprint that has continued with Andy Warhol, Nike and Franz Ferdinand.

For their first exhibition, the Constructivists aimed to reveal painting as a pointless and self-indulgent exercise - and created a legacy.

The movie Nicholas & Alexandra is a biographical film of the last Tsar, set against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.

Although it is tempting to drawn comparisons between the French and Russian Revolutions, each movement must be viewed as unique and inherently different.

A city of bridges and water, St. Petersburg on the Neva River is an archipelago dotted with palaces, museums, and cathedrals reflecting Russian and European influences.

Withdrawing from World War I after the October Revolution, Lenin and the Bolsheviks faced external intervention and civil war, necessitating stringent internal controls.

The Battleship Potemkin (1925) directed by Sergei Eisenstein is a silent film considered as one of the greatest films of all time. It tackles the 1905 Potemkin Mutiny.

Take a self-guided tour of the "people's palaces"--the underground kingdom of the Moscow Metropolitan, admiring the mosaics and marble of this utopia underground

By 1900 few areas of Africa and Asia remained independent of European and U.S. control and influence as the motives for imperialism compelled the exploitation of nations.

A highly intelligent, motivated labor force, craving stability and security, explains Russian economic affluence.

The organization, war record, and short-lived history of the battalions of the Russian Women's Legion of Death that fought in World War One and the Russian Revolution.

Marxism - Leninism would become the official ideology of the Soviet Union which was basically Tzarist Russia minus Finland, Poland and the Baltic States.

Formed from mutinous soldiers, armed factory workers and peasant conscripts, the Red Army prevailed through force of arms in the six-year-long Russian Civil War.