Russia in 1918

See what was going on in Russia in 1918.

This is part of the how they tell it series on understanding the past.

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The Great War peace treaties

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The story of how the Great War was coming to an end and there were a lot of treaty signing going on, the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk, Vladimir Lipsky, military technical adviser, Leon Trotsky, People's Commissariat for Foreign Affairs, Vasili Altfater, navy technical adviser and Lev Kamenev, First Chairman of VTsIK during Treaty of Brest-Litovsk negotiations.

The Russian Revolution

The story of the October Revolution and the Russian Civil War that started the previous year was going on.

The end of the Romanovs

The Romanovs working in the garden at Tsarskoe Selo, Russia.

The Romanovs working in the garden at Tsarskoe Selo, Russia, the story of the last Tsar of Russia, Nicholas II and the Russian Imperial Romanov family, his wife Alexandra Feodorovna, and their five children, Olga, Tatiana, Maria, Anastasia, and Alexei along with their court physician Eugene Botkin, the lady-in-waiting Anna Demidova, the footman Alexei Trupp and the head cook Ivan Kharitonov were shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries.

The start of the communist party

The story of the beginning of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, the ruling party which lasted until 6 November 1991 in which Vladimir Lenin, a Marxist, founded.

Books that tell the stories

There are a lot of great books on Amazon that tell the stories of Russia in 1918.

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by Cláudio de Oliveira

with John Milner, Natalia Murray, Nick Murray, Masha Chlenova, Ian Christie, John Bowlt, Nicoletta Misler, Zelfira Tregulova, Faina Balakhovskaya, Evgenia Petrova, Christina Lodder

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1 Leon_Trotsky_Lev_Kamenev - Unknown authorUnknown author, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

2 Underwood & Underwood, Copyright Claimant. The Romanovs working in the garden at Tsarskoe Selo, Russia. Russian Federation Pushkin, 1917. Photographed , Copyrighted 1921. Photograph. https://www.loc.gov/item/2007683270/.