Lenin addressing a crowd

Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin addresses a crowd during the first year of Revolution in Red Square in Moscow, Russia. (Photo taken on Nov. 7, 1918)

(Russian State Archive of Social and Political History via AP)

How the Russian Revolution uprooted the Swiss

A pivotal event in 20th-century history took place 90 years ago this month: the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution. The uprising, which brought the ...

Vladimir Ilyich UlyanovLenin and the Swiss non-revolution

Lenin, the father of the Russian revolution, worked on his theories for a popular uprising while living in Switzerland.

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