The Petrograd Soviet of Workers' and Soldiers' Deputies played a central role. It was created in the first days of the revolution and had big influence among the lower classes of society.

From the moment when we, as the Petrograd Soviet, invalidated Kerensky’s order transferring two-thirds of the garrison to the front, we had actually entered a state of armed insurrection.

The Russian Provisional Government, dominated by members of the bourgeoisie—the caste that Lenin despised—had taken over, sharing power with the Petrograd Soviet, a local governing body.

The Petrograd foreign trade section is rounding ... German, Finnish and English business men are reported in Soviet Russia seeking concessions. A Norwegian delegation wants a big paper factory ...

It was planned that he and his family would be sent to England, but instead, mainly because of the opposition of the Petrograd Soviet, the revolutionary Workers’ and Soldiers’ Council ...

The book presented images that originated between the Bolshevik seizure of Petrograd and the waning days of Stalin’s rule. All were doctored from one to several times as individuals who fell ...

A post-Stalin reorganization created the KGB formula in 1954. Since the Soviet government moved to Moscow from Petrograd in 1918 it has been headquartered not far from the Kremlin in a complex of ...

The book presented images that originated between the Bolshevik seizure of Petrograd and the waning ... After Stalin’s death, the Soviet leadership, recognizing the violence he had meted out ...

Petrograd Telegraph Agency (PTA ... "the central information agency of the whole Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic". Telegraph Agency of the Soviet Union (TASS) On July 10, 1925 ...