Lecture: The Great War and Russian Revolution

Available in many languages since its original French, The Internationale is the international song opposing repression. It was used in the Russian Revolution, and was Bolshevik Russia's national anthem until 1944. See Lyrics for this section in Russian and English

Bolshevik preparing to pull down a statue of Tsar Alexander III --->

Bolshevik pulling down statue of Alexander II

War is a most uneconomical, foolish, poor arrangement, a bloody enrichment of that soil which bears the sweet flower of peace ...

-- M. E. W. Sherwood (1897)

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British helping German soldiers
British soldiers helping wounded German prisoners on the Western Front

1. The Assassination and Alliances	2. The Technology and Trench Warfare
3. War Fever, Nationalism and Poster Art	4. Women and the War
5. The Peace to end all Peace	6. Russia Before the Revolutions
7. Revolutions of 1917

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