Notes on the Russian Revolutions

1917: The Russian Revolutions

Since the early 1990s, a series of previously-unpublished documents from the Russian archives has led historians to reassess the role of Lenin in the creation, and active use, of a secret police (Cheka, later KGB) to terrorize (and execute) political opponents. Of course, the most visible, and brutal, use of terror was the execution of the Russian royal family in the summer of 1918. The just-published documents clearly show that it was Lenin who approved of the murder.

Some recommended online lectures:

Professor Gerhard Rempel, Western New England College, The Russian Revolution of 1917
Lecture 5: The Russian Revolution: February - October 1917 (1)
Lecture 6: The Russian Revolution: Red October and the Bolshevik Coup (2)
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