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The 261 pages that link to Russian Revolution, each with the reason it gives.

• Soviet UnionNarrower topic: The revolutions created the Bolshevik government that later founded the union.

• Joseph StalinNarrower topic: The revolution created the new political order in which Stalin built his career.

• Russian Civil WarNarrower topic: The revolutions removed the old state and created the rival authorities that fought for control.

• October RevolutionNarrower topic: October is the second major revolution of 1917, distinct from the February overthrow of the monarchy.

• Treaty of Brest-LitovskNarrower topic: The treaty emerged from the revolutions that transformed Russia’s government and war aims.

• BolsheviksNarrower topic: The faction’s origins unfolded within this broader revolutionary crisis.

• StalinismNarrower topic: The Bolshevik state created the setting in which Stalin later consolidated power.

• TrotskyismNarrower topic: Trotsky’s political role and later disputes grew directly from the revolution’s outcomes.

• Serfdom in RussiaNarrower topic: The revolution followed decades of rural inequality left unresolved after emancipation.

• Soviet literatureNarrower topic: They overturned the political order that Soviet literature would represent and contest.

• White movementNarrower topic: The revolutions created the struggle against Bolshevik rule that united the Whites.

• Nicholas IINarrower topic: The February uprising finally displaced Nicholas and the monarchy.

• Alexander BlokNarrower topic: The revolution supplied the historical setting and central force of Blok’s late poetry.

• Vyacheslav MolotovNarrower topic: The revolution created the political order in which Molotov made his career.

• Russian Constituent AssemblyNarrower topic: The assembly’s fate marked a decisive struggle over who would govern after the revolution.

• Soviet montage theoryNarrower topic: The new political order shaped the institutions and public ambitions surrounding Soviet filmmaking.

• MosfilmNarrower topic: The new government nationalized cinema and established the conditions for state studios.

• Nikolai BukharinNarrower topic: Bukharin’s political career emerged from the revolutionary movement that seized power in 1917.

• Emancipation reform of 1861Narrower topic: The unfinished agrarian question inherited from emancipation formed part of its background.

• Treaty of RapalloNarrower topic: The Soviet government’s revolutionary origins shaped its diplomatic isolation and claims disputes with Germany.

• Workers’ councilsNarrower topic: Workers’ and soldiers’ councils became rival centers of authority during the upheavals of 1917.

• Alexander KerenskyNarrower topic: Kerensky’s career unfolded between the revolution’s two defining upheavals.

• Andrei ZhdanovNarrower topic: Zhdanov entered Bolshevik politics amid the revolutionary transformation of the Russian state.

• Moscow TrialsNarrower topic: The defendants’ prominence originated in the revolution and the party-state it created.

• Russian Imperial ArmyNarrower topic: The army’s wartime collapse and mutinies were central to the monarchy’s overthrow.

• Russian nobilityNarrower topic: The revolution dismantled the imperial order in which noble privilege was embedded.

• MakhnovshchinaNarrower topic: Its collapse of imperial authority opened the struggle in which the Makhnovshchina formed.

• Russian Provisional GovernmentNarrower topic: The provisional regime was the brief governing phase between the revolution’s two major upheavals.

• Socialism in One CountryNarrower topic: The doctrine addressed the prospects of a socialist state created by the revolution.

• Socialist Revolutionary PartyNarrower topic: The party's rise and defeat were central episodes in the revolutionary struggle over Russia's future.

• Allied intervention in the Russian Civil WarNarrower topic: The revolution transformed an Allied wartime partner into a country at civil war.

• Dziga VertovNarrower topic: The upheaval created the political institutions and mass-media projects in which Vertov worked.

• Nikolay ChernyshevskyNarrower topic: Revolutionaries of 1917 inherited a political tradition that treated his work as formative.

• Winter PalaceNarrower topic: The palace’s occupation became an enduring symbol of revolutionary change.

• Alexander KolchakNarrower topic: The revolutions overturned the state and military order in which Kolchak had served.

• Julius MartovNarrower topic: Martov’s career and defeat unfolded within the revolution’s competing socialist projects.

• Kronstadt RebellionNarrower topic: The rebels invoked revolutionary ideals while challenging the government established by the revolution.

• Estonian War of IndependenceNarrower topic: The upheaval weakened imperial authority and transformed Estonia’s political prospects.

• Alexandra KollontaiNarrower topic: The revolution opened the political roles Kollontai pursued in government and party life.

• Grigori RasputinNarrower topic: Rasputin’s reputation fed criticism of the monarchy, though his murder did not prevent its collapse.

• Russification of FinlandNarrower topic: The revolutions ended imperial authority over Finland rather than merely suspending its policies.

• Boris SavinkovNarrower topic: Savinkov’s career unfolded across the revolutions and civil war that transformed Russia.

• How the Steel Was TemperedNarrower topic: The revolution established the political cause that shapes Pavel’s life and ideals.

• Trofim LysenkoNarrower topic: The new Soviet state created institutions through which agricultural science became a political concern.

• Battle of SardarabadNarrower topic: The collapse of Russian authority left the Caucasus exposed to Ottoman military pressure.

• Pyotr StolypinNarrower topic: Stolypin’s stabilization efforts preceded, but did not prevent, the empire’s collapse.

• Ukrainian–Soviet WarNarrower topic: The collapse of imperial authority opened the struggle over who would govern Ukraine.

• 1930sNarrower topic: The Soviet state created by the revolution influenced 1930s political alignments.

• Anti-Stalinist leftNarrower topic: The movement’s disputes grew from the revolution’s promises and the state built in its aftermath.

• Daniil KharmsNarrower topic: The revolution and its aftermath reshaped the institutions and political pressures under which Kharms wrote.