Subject: Soviet Union -- History -- Revolution, 1917-1921 (Keywords)

From the time of Peter the Great, Paris was the playground of the tsarist aristocracy. But the fall of the Romanov dynasty in 1917 forced Russians of all types to flee their homeland. Leaving with only the clothes on their backs, many came to France's glittering capital. Paris was no longer an am...

One of the most important Russian masterpieces of the 20th century, 'And Quiet Flows the Don' is an epic novel depicting the lives and struggles of Don Cossacks during the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the Civil War. The story follows the Cossack Gregor Melekhov, a tragic hero who f...

This is Mikhail Bulgakov's semi-autobiographical story of a writer who fails to sell his novel and fails to commit suicide. When his play is taken up by the theatre, literary success beckons, but he has reckoned without the grotesquely inflated egos of the actors, directors and theate managers.

The story of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, is both a panoramic, epic portrait of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution in history, and an intense love story.

The story of Yuri Zhivago, physician and poet, is both a panoramic, epic portrait of a country in the throes of the most radical revolution in history, and an intense love story.

The story of the arrest, captivity, and execution of the Tsar and his family during the revolution of 1917 has become an historic tale. This book is based on documents and photos from recently opened Russian archives and from Western collections.

When a Moscow professor befriends a stray dog and uses it for an experiment, it all goes horribly wrong. He transplants the testicles and pituitary gland of a dead man into the dog and the resulting animal is let loose.

A gripping account of how, during the First World War, Russia's greatest revolutionary was taken in a sealed train across Europe and changed the history of the world. By 1917 the European war seemed to be endless. Both sides in the fighting looked to new weapons, tactics and ideas to break a stal...

It's been two years since the honor and glory sought in the Great War (seen in Book One of this series) have become mutilated and blurred memories. The October Revolution in Russia exudes hope in the hearts of the oppressed and draws in Matteo, the son of a Spanish anarchist. But first he stops i...

Moscow, 1918. Following the Revolution, people are leaving the city in droves - bound for the Black Sea, and from there to Europe and beyond. In late autumn, the celebrated writer Teffi is invited on a reading tour; having elegantly navigated the bureaucratic waters for her visa, she spends the w...