Politics
Bolshevik
From the Russian for "one of the majority", the name of the faction of Russian Marxists led by Lenin after the party split of 1903. The Bolsheviks took power in Petrograd on 7 November 1917 (25 October by the Russian calendar).
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- Chapter V The Year of Attrition §4 The Ottoman Fronts: Kut, Erzurum and the Arab Revolt
- Chapter VI The Year of Revolutions Overview§3 Russia: The February Revolution and the Dual Power§6 Russia's Summer: Kerensky's Offensive, the July Days and Kornilov§9 Peace Moves, the October Revolution and the Armistice in the East§10 Baghdad, Beersheba and Jerusalem
- Chapter VII The Last Gamble §1 Wilson's Fourteen Points§2 Brest-Litovsk: Peace in the East§9 Germany's Revolution
- Chapter VIII The Reckoning and the Remaking §1 The Dead, the Maimed and the Flu§2 Paris, 1919: The Peacemakers and the League§4 The Other Treaties and the New Map§5 Red and White: Russia's Civil War and the Battle for Warsaw§6 Germany's Troubled Birth: From Weimar to the Putsch
- Chapter XI War on Waves and Wings §7 The Mediterranean, Black Sea and Baltic
- Chapter XII The Home Fronts §3 Women at War
- Chapter XIII A World on Fire §4 Tsingtao, the Pacific and the Emden§9 The Middle East Remade by Wartime Promises§10 Legacies: Nationalism After the War