Posted: March 11, 2025 | Last updated: July 10, 2025 The film discusses the importance of civil defense in the context of historical events, particularly the Russian Revolution and the Cold War.

Czar Nicholas II, Under Arrest and Doomed to Die One of the most famous photos from the Russian Revolution was published a century ago in The New York Times Mid-Week Pictorial.

Lucy Worsley reveals how a spontaneous popular uprising swept the Russian Czar from power. The October Revolution of 1917 has gone down in history as the only Russian Revolution that really ...

Viking, $35 (592p) ISBN 978-0-593-49387-8 Czar Nicholas II’s abdication in 1917 created a “sudden vacuum of power” that enabled the Bolshevik takeover of Russia, according to this tart history.