revolution, 1917-1921

A selection of original documents and other source materials that provide information about key issues related to the Revolution and Counter-Revolution which took place in Russia between 1917 and 1924.

The story of Zhivago, poet and physician, of his struggle to keep his family alive and happy in the midst of overwhelming chaos, and of his love for Lara.

A historical novel in which Leonka, an old man who served as a youth as kitchen boy in the Ipatiev House where the tsar and tsarina, Nicholas and Alexandra, were imprisoned, finally reveals what he saw, and what he did on the night the Imperial Family was executed in 1918.

Presents the stories of 15 Russians, Britons, and Americans who took part in, witnessed, or were victims of the revolutionary years.

A biography of the leader of the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution who formulated the official Communist ideology and became the first head of the Soviet state.

In the time of the Russian Revolution, Kira is torn between two men who love her, one a Communist, the other an aristocrat.