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Introduction
243.01   Russian Revolution and the aftermath (1917): Introduction
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243.02   Photographers of the Russian Revolution (1917)
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Tzarist Russia had been in a state of internal unrest since the Russian Revolution in 1905. The pressures that were reaching unstoppable levels were formented by the defeat of the Russian forces by the Japanese in the Russo-Japanese War (1904-1905) but it was also the hardships brought on by the First World War (1914-1918) that pushed it over the edge.
 
In February 1917 there was a Revolution that forced Tzar Nicholas II to abdicate. The forces that led the revolution were far from in agreement about the direction the country should go and it was in November 1917 that the Bolsheviks took power in a further push. The October Revolution of 1917 was largely organized from the Smolny Institute in Petrograd (now St. Peterburg) and Jakob Steinberg was there to photograph the daily activities amidst the growing chaos.
 
Following the overthrow of the Tzar the country was divided and the outcome uncertain as the White Russians backed from outside countries with expeditionary forces sought to bring about a government they could live with. To prevent a return of the Tzar to power the Bolsheviks murdered him, his wife Alexandrina and their children at Yekaterinburg on 17 July 1918. As Russia has accepted its history on 17 July 1998 the last Russian Emperor Nicholas II and his family were reburied in St. Catherine Chapel (Ekaterininsky Predel) of Peter and Paul Cathedral in St. Petersburg. 
  
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Photographers of the Russian Revolution:
 
 
  

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General reading 
  
Lewinski, Jorge, 1978, The Camera at War, A History of War Photography, (New York: Simon & Schuster) [Δ] 
  
Livingston, Jane, 1985, The Indelible Image, Photographs of War, (New York: Harry Abrams) [Δ] 
  
Moynahan, Brian, 1994, The Russian Century: A Photographic History of Russia's 100 Years, (Random House) isbn-10: 0679420754 isbn-13: 978-0679420750 [Δ] 
  
 
  
 
  
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