Reds
Here in the story
City
Reunited as correspondents, Reed and Bryant are swept up in the October Revolution and the crowds singing the Internationale.
What happened here
Renamed from Saint Petersburg in 1914, the Russian capital was the cradle of the 1917 revolutions. The February Revolution toppled the Tsar, and in May the Provisional Government formed women's 'battalions of death' to shame deserting men back to the front. On 7 November 1917 the Bolsheviks, directed from the Smolny Institute, seized power and took the Winter Palace. The capital moved to Moscow in March 1918.
Films and series set in Petrograd
Battalion
Here in the story
City
Women from every class answer Bochkareva's call, and her brutal training weeds out all but the toughest before the battalion is blessed and sent off.
Events at Petrograd
Politics
October Revolution
Lenin's Bolsheviks seized power in Petrograd, overthrowing the Provisional Government that had replaced the tsar months earlier. The revolution took Russia out of the war and led to the first communist state.
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Siege of Leningrad
German and Finnish forces cut Leningrad off from the rest of the Soviet Union for nearly 900 days. Hundreds of thousands of civilians died of starvation and cold, yet the city never surrendered.
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