On the 20th December 1917, the Russian Bolshevik secret police known as the Cheka was established.
10th December 1768: First edition of the Encyclopaedia @Britannica published (Corrected)
10th December 2017
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik factions.
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.
25th September 1956: Inauguration TAT-1, the first transatlantic telephone cable
25th September 2017
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017