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1917 in Russia, the Glossary

Events from the year 1917 in Russia.^[1]

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Aleksei Brusilov

Aleksei Alekseyevich Brusilov (p; – 17 March 1926) was a Russian and later Soviet general most noted for the development of new offensive tactics used in the 1916 Brusilov offensive, which was his greatest achievement.

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Alexander Kerensky

Alexander Fyodorovich Kerensky (– 11 June 1970) was a Russian lawyer and revolutionary who led the Russian Provisional Government and the short-lived Russian Republic for three months from late July to early November 1917 (N.S.). After the February Revolution of 1917, he joined the newly formed provisional government, first as Minister of Justice, then as Minister of War, and after July as the government's second Minister-Chairman.

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Alexandra Kollontai

Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai (Александра Михайловна Коллонтай;, Домонтович; – 9 March 1952) was a Russian revolutionary, politician, diplomat and Marxist theoretician.

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Alexey Abaza

Aleksei Mikhailovich Abaza (Алексей Михайлович Абаза; 30 April 1853 – 1915 or 3 February 1917) was an Imperial Russian Navy officer who achieved the rank of rear admiral.

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Allies of World War II

The Allies, formally referred to as the United Nations from 1942, were an international military coalition formed during World War II (1939–1945) to oppose the Axis powers.

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Andrey Selivanov

Andrey Nikolayevich Selivanov (5 August 1847 – 15 July 1917) was a Russian politician and general notable for capturing Przemyśl during World War I.

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Austria-Hungary

Austria-Hungary, often referred to as the Austro-Hungarian Empire or the Dual Monarchy, was a multi-national constitutional monarchy in Central Europe between 1867 and 1918.

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Autocephaly

Autocephaly (from αὐτοκεφαλία, meaning "property of being self-headed") is the status of a hierarchical Christian church whose head bishop does not report to any higher-ranking bishop.

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Autonomous Governorate of Estonia

The Autonomous Governorate of Estonia of the Russian state was established as a result of the Russian Revolution of 1917 and ceased to exist prior to Estonia becoming a fully independent country in 1918.

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Autonomy

In developmental psychology and moral, political, and bioethical philosophy, autonomy is the capacity to make an informed, uncoerced decision.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Boris Shturmer

Baron Boris Vladimirovich Shturmer (Бори́с Влади́мирович Штю́рмер; –) was a Russian lawyer, a Master of Ceremonies at the Russian Court, and a district governor.

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Cabinet (government)

A cabinet in governing is a group of people with the constitutional or legal task to rule a country or state, or advise a head of state, usually from the executive branch.

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Cheka

The All-Russian Extraordinary Commission (p), abbreviated as VChK (p), and commonly known as the Cheka (p), was the first Soviet secret police organization.

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Commissar

Commissar (or sometimes Kommissar) is an English transliteration of the Russian комиссáр (komissar), which means 'commissary'.

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Communist Party of the Soviet Union

The Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), at some points known as the Russian Communist Party, All-Union Communist Party and Bolshevik Party, and sometimes referred to as the Soviet Communist Party (SCP), was the founding and ruling political party of the Soviet Union.

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Council of People's Commissars

The Council of People's Commissars (CPC) (Sovet narodnykh kommissarov (SNK)), commonly known as the Sovnarkom (Совнарком), were the highest executive authorities of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR), the Soviet Union (USSR), and the Soviet republics from 1917 to 1946.

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The Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic was the government of Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1946.

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Duma

A duma (дума) is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions.

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Estonians

Estonians or Estonian people (eestlased) are a Baltic Finnic ethnic group who speak the Estonian language.

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February Revolution

The February Revolution (Февральская революция), known in Soviet historiography as the February Bourgeois Democratic Revolution and sometimes as the March Revolution, was the first of two revolutions which took place in Russia in 1917.

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Finland Station

St Petersburg–Finlyandsky (Stantsiya Sankt-Peterburg-Finlyandskiy), also known as Finland Station (Finlyandskiy vokzal), is a railway station in St. Petersburg, Russia, handling transport to westerly destinations including Helsinki and Vyborg.

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Galicia (Eastern Europe)

Galicia (. Collins English Dictionary Galicja,; translit,; Galitsye) is a historical and geographic region spanning what is now southeastern Poland and western Ukraine, long part of the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.

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Georgian Orthodox Church

The Apostolic Autocephalous Orthodox Church of Georgia (tr), commonly known as the Georgian Orthodox Church or the Orthodox Church of Georgia, is an autocephalous Eastern Orthodox church in full communion with the other churches of Eastern Orthodoxy.

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Georgy Lvov

Prince Georgy Yevgenyevich Lvov (– 7/8 March 1925) was a Russian aristocrat, statesman and the first prime minister of the Russian Republic from 15 March to 20 July 1917.

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German Empire

The German Empire, also referred to as Imperial Germany, the Second Reich or simply Germany, was the period of the German Reich from the unification of Germany in 1871 until the November Revolution in 1918, when the German Reich changed its form of government from a monarchy to a republic.

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Governorate of Estonia

The Governorate of Estonia, also known as the Esthonia (Estland) Governorate, was a province (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire.

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Governorate of Livonia

The Governorate of Livonia, also known as the Livonia Governorate, was a province (guberniya) and one of the Baltic governorates of the Russian Empire, Baltic Governorate-General until 1876.

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Grand Duchy of Finland

The Grand Duchy of Finland, officially and also translated as the Grand Principality of Finland, was the predecessor state of modern Finland.

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Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia

Grand Duke Michael Alexandrovich of Russia (r; 13 June 1918) was the youngest son and fifth child of Emperor Alexander III of Russia and youngest brother of Nicholas II.

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History of Iran

The history of Iran (or Persia, as it was commonly known in the Western world) is intertwined with that of Greater Iran, a sociocultural region spanning the area between Anatolia in the west and the Indus River and Syr Darya in the east, and between the Caucasus and Eurasian Steppe in the north and the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman in the south.

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I. D. Serebryakov

Igor Dmitrievich Serebryakov (Игорь Дмитриевич Серебряков; 27 November 1917 – 1998) was a Soviet lexicographer and translator.

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Ivan Goremykin

Ivan Logginovich Goremykin (Ива́н Лóггинович Горемы́кин; 8 November 183924 December 1917) was a Russian politician who served as the prime minister of the Russian Empire in 1906 and again from 1914 to 1916, during World War I. He was the last person to have the civil rank of Active Privy Councillor, 1st class.

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July Days

The July Days (Июльские дни) were a period of unrest in Petrograd, Russia, between.

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Kerensky offensive

The Kerensky offensive (Наступление Керенского), also called the June offensive (Июньское наступление) in Russia or the July offensive in Western historiography, took place from to 1917 and was the last Russian offensive of World War I. After the abdication of Emperor Nicholas II during the February Revolution, the Russian Provisional Government pledged to fulfill Russia's existing commitments to the Triple Entente, which included launching an offensive in the spring of 1917.

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Leon Trotsky

Lev Davidovich Bronstein (– 21 August 1940), better known as Leon Trotsky, was a Russian revolutionary, Soviet politician, and political theorist.

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List of Russian monarchs

This is a list of all reigning monarchs in the history of Russia.

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Lviv

Lviv (Львів; see below for other names) is the largest city in western Ukraine, as well as the sixth-largest city in Ukraine, with a population of It serves as the administrative centre of Lviv Oblast and Lviv Raion, and is one of the main cultural centres of Ukraine.

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Mendele Mocher Sforim

Mendele Mocher Sforim (מענדעלע מוכר ספֿרים, מנדלי מוכר ספרים; lit. "Mendele the book peddler"; January 2, 1836, Kapyl – December 8, 1917, Odessa), born Sholem Yankev Abramovich (שלום יעקבֿ אַבראַמאָװיטש, translit) or S. J. Abramowitch, was a Jewish author and one of the founders of modern Yiddish and Hebrew literature.

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Minister (government)

A minister is a politician who heads a ministry, making and implementing decisions on policies in conjunction with the other ministers.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Mossoviet

The Moscow City Council (Московский городской совет) in short Mossoviet (Russian: Моссовет), an abbreviation of Moscow Soviet (Московский Совет, Moskovskij Sovet), was established following the February Revolution.

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Nicholas II

Nicholas II (Nikolai Alexandrovich Romanov; 186817 July 1918) or Nikolai II was the last reigning Emperor of Russia, King of Congress Poland, and Grand Duke of Finland from 1 November 1894 until his abdication on 15 March 1917.

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October Revolution

The October Revolution, also known as the Great October Socialist Revolution (in Soviet historiography), October coup,, britannica.com Bolshevik coup, or Bolshevik revolution, was a revolution in Russia led by the Bolshevik Party of Vladimir Lenin that was a key moment in the larger Russian Revolution of 1917–1923.

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Parliament of Finland

The Parliament of Finland is the unicameral and supreme legislature of Finland, founded on 9 May 1906.

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Petrograd Soviet

The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies (Петроградский совет рабочихи солдатскихдепутатов, Petrogradskij sovjet rabočih i soldatskih deputatov) was a city council of Petrograd (Saint Petersburg), the capital of Russia at the time.

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Premier

Premier is a title for the head of government in central governments, state governments and local governments of some countries.

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Robert Viren

Robert Nikolayevich Viren (Robert Nikolaevich Viren; 6 January 1857 – 14 March 1917), also known as Robert Reinhold von Wirén, was a Baltic German career naval officer in the Imperial Russian Navy, noted for his role in the Russo-Japanese War of 1904–1905.

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Russia

Russia, or the Russian Federation, is a country spanning Eastern Europe and North Asia.

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Russian Civil War

The Russian Civil War was a multi-party civil war in the former Russian Empire sparked by the overthrowing of the social-democratic Russian Provisional Government in the October Revolution, as many factions vied to determine Russia's political future. 1917 in Russia and Russian Civil War are 1910s in Russia.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Russian Provisional Government

The Russian Provisional Government was a provisional government of the Russian Empire and Russian Republic, announced two days before and established immediately after the abdication of Nicholas II, during the February Revolution.

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Russian Republic

The Russian Republic, referred to as the Russian Democratic Federal Republic in the 1918 Constitution, was a short-lived state which controlled, de jure, the territory of the former Russian Empire after its proclamation by the Russian Provisional Government on 1 September (14 September) 1917 in a decree signed by Alexander Kerensky as Minister-Chairman and Alexander Zarudny as Minister of Justice.

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Social Democratic Party of Finland

The Social Democratic Party of Finland (SDP, Suomen sosialidemokraattinen puolue, nicknamed: demarit in Finnish; Finlands socialdemokratiska parti) is a social democratic political party in Finland.

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Sovereignty Act

The Sovereignty Act or the Absolute and Hereditary Monarchy Act (Suverænitetsakten or Enevoldsarveregeringsakten; Enevoldsarveregjeringsakten or sometimes even Suverenitetsakten) refers to two similar constitutional acts that introduced absolute and hereditary monarchy in the Kingdom of Denmark and absolute monarchy in the Kingdom of Norway, which was already a hereditary monarchy.

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Tallinn

Tallinn is the capital and most populous city of Estonia.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Vladimir Burliuk

Vladimir Davydovych Burliuk (Влади́мир Дави́дович Бурлю́к;; – 1917) was a Ukrainian avant-garde artist (Neo-Primitivist and Cubo-Futurist) and book illustrator from the Russian empire.

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Vladimir Lenin

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (1870 – 21 January 1924), better known as Vladimir Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician and political theorist.

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Winter Palace

The Winter Palace is a palace in Saint Petersburg that served as the official residence of the House of Romanov, previous emperors, from 1732 to 1917.

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Women's suffrage

Women's suffrage is the right of women to vote in elections.

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Workers' council

A workers' council, also called labor council, is a type of council in a workplace or a locality made up of workers or of temporary and instantly revocable delegates elected by the workers in a locality's workplaces.

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World War I

World War I (alternatively the First World War or the Great War) (28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918) was a global conflict between two coalitions: the Allies (or Entente) and the Central Powers.

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Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev

Yevgeni Ivanovich Alekseyev or Alexeyev (Евге́ний Ива́нович Алексе́ев; b. – d. May 27, 1917) was a Russian admiral in the Imperial Russian Navy, viceroy of the Russian Far East, and commander-in-chief of Imperial Russian forces at Port Arthur and in Manchuria during the first year of the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05.

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1848

1848 is historically famous for the wave of revolutions, a series of widespread struggles for more liberal governments, which broke out from Brazil to Hungary; although most failed in their immediate aims, they significantly altered the political and philosophical landscape and had major ramifications throughout the rest of the century.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1917_in_Russia

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1910s in Russia

1917 by country

1917 in Asia

1917 in Europe

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