The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/bolshevik-revolution/ News from Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish World Tue, 09 Jun 2026 09:44:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://static-cdn.toi-media.com/www/uploads/2018/11/toi_icon_512-200x200.png Bolshevik revolution | The Times of Israel https://www.timesofisrael.com/topic/bolshevik-revolution/ 32 32 Mexicans mark 80 years since Trotsky was assassinated by Stalin agent https://www.timesofisrael.com/mexicans-mark-80-years-since-trotsky-assassinated-by-stalin-agent/ Wed, 19 Aug 2020 04:54:02 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=2371137 Museum at home where Russian revolutionary was brutally murdered with ice axe still bears marks of earlier hit attempt as exile sought safety

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]]> Before the Bolsheviks, this man abolished Russia’s Pale of Settlement https://www.timesofisrael.com/before-the-bolsheviks-this-man-abolished-russias-pale-of-settlement/ Mon, 06 Nov 2017 19:57:40 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1722642 100 years after the Russian Revolution, scholars celebrate Alexander Kerensky, the architect of a document securing equal rights for the country's Jews

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]]> 100 years on, international conferences debate Jewish role in Russian Revolution https://www.timesofisrael.com/100-years-on-international-conferences-debate-jewish-role-in-russian-revolution/ Sat, 28 Oct 2017 12:55:31 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com?p=1713097&preview=true&preview_id=1713097 The Jews in Stalin's secret police, and where to lay blame for pogroms that killed thousands, are among topics up for discussion in academies from New York to Ukraine

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]]> Russian TV series claims Jewish Trotsky masterminded bloody 1917 revolution https://www.timesofisrael.com/russian-tv-series-claims-jewish-trotsky-masterminded-the-bloody-1917-revolution/ Thu, 28 Sep 2017 12:58:12 +0000 https://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1699495 Leaving historians unsure whether show is anti-Semitic or simply sensationalist, upcoming drama accuses Marxist thinker of murdering tsar's family

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]]> How a female Jewish journalist alerted the world to Ukraine’s silent starvation https://www.timesofisrael.com/how-a-female-jewish-journalist-alerted-the-world-to-ukraines-silent-starvation/ Sun, 18 Jun 2017 01:56:19 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1637604 Rhea Clyman's groundbreaking coverage of the 1932 famine is the subject of a new biography by Prof. Jaroslaw Balan, who is searching for her 'goldmine' of a memoir

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]]> Author opens the Pandora’s box of Russia’s curious autonomous Jewish ghost town https://www.timesofisrael.com/author-opens-the-pandoras-box-of-russias-curious-autonomous-jewish-ghost-town/ Mon, 10 Oct 2016 19:27:06 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1473131 While Chaim Weitzman and Nahum Sokolow were in Britain campaigning for a Zionist state, the Bolsheviks were busy implementing their own vision -- in the USSR

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]]> Trotsky’s day out: How a visit to NYC influenced the Bolshevik revolution https://www.timesofisrael.com/trotskys-day-out-how-a-visit-to-nyc-influenced-the-bolshevik-revolution/ Mon, 19 Sep 2016 19:00:10 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1460348 Author Kenneth Ackerman explores the life of the Jewish radical in the weeks leading up to the overthrow of the Russian Provisional Government

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]]> Actress channels Marc Chagall’s beloved Bella https://www.timesofisrael.com/actress-channels-marc-chagalls-beloved-bella/ Fri, 19 Jun 2015 07:49:16 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=1199445 'Mystical' kinship keeps Kristina Schneidermann afloat as she portrays great artist's wife in Russian film about modernism and revolution

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]]> Russia angry over US fines for Jewish collection https://www.timesofisrael.com/russia-angry-over-us-fines-for-jewish-collection/ Thu, 17 Jan 2013 17:45:58 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=346016 US judge rules Moscow should pay the penalty until it complies with 2010 order to return tens of thousands of religious books

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]]> Moscow museum at heart of Russia’s Jewish culture revival https://www.timesofisrael.com/moscow-museum-at-heart-of-russias-jewish-culture-revival/ Fri, 16 Nov 2012 18:02:08 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=283988 The trajectory of Jewish life in Russia in the 20th century, from imperial to Soviet times, is embodied in the story of one family

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]]> US opposes Chabad bid to fine Russia for failing to return Jewish archives https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-opposes-chabad-bid-to-fine-russia-for-failing-to-return-jewish-archives/ Mon, 10 Sep 2012 11:05:08 +0000 http://www.timesofisrael.com/?p=219514 In 2010, a NYC court ruled that Russia must return books and manuscripts, but it has refused to do so

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