The many people writing about the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution this year usually have to pause early in their work to explain why the February Revolution was in March and the October Revolution in November. The reason is simple — Russia was on a different calendar at the time — but that nagging inconsistency offers a foretaste of the extraordinary degree to which perspective shapes the facts, myths and political narratives of an upheaval that continues to shape history today.
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Serge Schmemann: The Russian Revolution – then and now
Young officers of the Provisional government army camp in the Winter Palace, in Petrograd, on the eve of the October 1917 Revolution. During the October 1917 Revolution, the Bolsheviks overthrew the Kerensky's Provisional Government, formed during the March 1917 Revolution, and replaced it for a soviet one. The October Revolution was led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, and marked the beginning of the spread of communism in the twentieth century.
