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World War I
and
the Russian Revolutions
World War I montage: the aftermath of
shelling during the Battle of the Somme,
Albatros D.III fighters of Jagdstaffel 11,
British Mark V tanks cross the Hindenburg
Line, a British Vickers machine gun crew
wears gas masks during the Battle of the
Somme, HMS Irresistible sinks after hitting
a mine in the Dardanelles (1915)
Italian poster from 1915 showing
Wilhelm II biting into the world
"The Pals." 1918 propaganda
postcard of Kaiser Wilhelm II kissing
the Devil.
German High Seas Fleet,
with a member of the
Braunschweig class in the
lead.
Paul Kennedy, The Rise and Fall of the
Great Powers: Economic Change and
Military Conflict from 1500 to 2000
(1987).
Frenchmen cheering at the outbreak of World War I, 1914 © Mary Evans
Picture Library/Süddeutsche Zeitung Photo
Council of Four at the WWI Paris peace conference, May 27, 1919 (candid photo): Prime
Minister David Lloyd George (Great Britian); Premier Vittorio Orlando, Italy; French Premier
Georges Clemenceau; President Woodrow Wilson.
Territorial changes in Europe and the Near East after the First World War.
The Liberty of Russia, poster of the Constitutional
Democratic Party, 1917.
Party of the Socialist
Revolutionaries, election poster,
1917.
Flag of the Russian Social Democratic
Labor Party
Lenin addressing the second congress of the Russian Social
Democratic Labor Party in Brussels, 30 July 1903:
Bolshevik/Menshevik split
The Potemkin Mutiny, 1905; Marching in Moscow.
Photograph of Nicholas II, Emperor of
Russia, ca 1909
Grigorij Rasputin, ca 1915.
The Romanovs: seated (left to right) Marie, Queen
Alexandra, Czar Nicholas II, Anastasia, Alexei (front), and
standing (left to right), Olga and Tatiana.
The 1917 Russian Revolution
Lenin (1870-1924); portrait by Alexander
Gerasimov, 1930; State Historical Museum
"The peoples of the world do not want a
repeat of the disasters of war" (J. Stalin). Cold
War poster, 1952.
White propaganda
poster, "For united
Russia,“ 1919
Red propaganda poster,
“Beat the Whites with the
Red Wedge,” by El Lissitzky,
1919
Territorial changes in Europe and the Near East after the First World War.