October Revolution
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Warren Beatty co-wrote, produced and directed this historical drama about John Reed, a journalist who chronicled Russia’s 1917 October Revolution.
From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 11, 2025
He was in Moscow during the October Revolution, and some of the book’s most memorable passages describe his hiding with neighbors as Bolsheviks and Kadets fought in the streets.
From Washington Post ● Feb. 10, 2023
In the October Revolution in 1917, Lenin led a coup and seized power from the other political factions in Petrograd.
From Textbooks ● Dec. 14, 2022
Their collection, which includes works by Gauguin, Van Gogh and Picasso, was expropriated about a century ago, after the October Revolution, and became state property.
From New York Times ● Apr. 12, 2022
Even the October Revolution in Russia in 1905, an event with thunderously far-reaching implications for society at large, had minimal impact on the contemporaneous upheavals in music.
From "The Story of Music" by Howard Goodall
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