In the early hours of the 17th July 1918 the Russian Imperial Romanov family were shot dead in the basement of the Ipatiev House in the Russian city of Ekaterinburg.
On the 30th December 1922, the USSR – the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics – was founded.
On the 30th August 1918, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov – better known as Lenin – was the victim of a failed assassination plot.
Vladimir Lenin arrived in Russia after a decade of self-imposed exile.
Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.
On the 7th November 1917, Red Guards entered the Winter Palace in St Petersburg in a defining event of the Bolshevik Revolution.
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
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