The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies played a central role. It was created in the first days of the revolution and had big influence among the lower classes of society.

The Russian Provisional Government, dominated by members of the bourgeoisie—the caste that Lenin despised—had taken over, sharing power with the Petrograd Soviet, a local governing body.

From the moment when we, as the Petrograd Soviet, invalidated Kerensky’s order transferring two-thirds of the garrison to the front, we had actually entered a state of armed insurrection.

In the latest of our series on great revolutions, Dominic Alexander looks at how the Russian socialists had to confront the ...

Authoritarians throughout the twentieth century employed the same method after usurping power either democratically or by ...

The workers’ revolution had begun and with it the transformation of world history, as Dominic Alexander shows The government and the military command were alarmed at the huge rallies in support of the ...

The Petrograd foreign trade section is rounding ... German, Finnish and English business men are reported in Soviet Russia seeking concessions. A Norwegian delegation wants a big paper factory ...

It was planned that he and his family would be sent to England, but instead, mainly because of the opposition of the Petrograd Soviet, the revolutionary Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council ...

A post-Stalin reorganization created the KGB formula in 1954. Since the Soviet government moved to Moscow from Petrograd in 1918 it has been headquartered not far from the Kremlin in a complex of ...

His poems were enjoyed by all Soviet children. Marshak's poetry for children is a world of goodness, fun, fairy tales, original images and ringing, beautiful rhymes.  He was an innovator, the creator ...