1917: The view from the streets

As the first installment in a series to mark 100 years since Russia 1917, we publish a leaflet from Bolshevik-influenced students.

In a foreshock of the revolution to come, Russian socialists called for a protest strike on the anniversary of a previous uprising.

With the social crisis intensifying, Russian socialists from the Mensheviks called for a provisional government to replace the Tsar.

Weeks before the uprising against the Tsar, the Bolsheviks agitated for a one-day strike with the aim of advancing workers' power.

A leaflet issued by Russian socialists 100 years ago to honor Working Women's Day anticipated the revolution that began that day.

One hundred years ago, Russian socialists called for an insurrectionary strike--on the day centuries of Tsarist rule finally ended.

This appeal from Russian socialists shortly after the February Revolution called on soldiers to side with the workers' councils.

One hundred years ago, Polish socialists in Petrograd pointed to the Russian Revolution as the hope for liberation from empire.

An appeal issued 100 years ago by the moderate socialists leading the Petrograd Soviet calls for unity in the cause of peace.

Two appeals by right-wing Russian socialists in May 1917 show how they couched support for war in the language of peace.

Two proclamations issued in Petrograd show how the radicalization of workers and soldiers led more people to the Bolsheviks.

Two appeals from 100 years ago show the deepening conflict among Russian socialists as a new struggle for power took place.

The Bolsheviks' response to repression after the July Days uprising was to avoid provocations and prepare for future struggle.

An eyewitness to the Russian Revolution describes how the Petrograd of the workers developed a different attitude to Bolshevism.

A witness to the Russian Revolution learns about the grim toll of the First World War and the spreading revolt in the Tsar's armies.

A journalist in revolutionary Russia in 1917 describes his encounters sailors who were part of the struggle to make the world anew.

A witness to the revolution tells how failing confidence in the Provisional Government was replaced by hope in workers' councils.

An American journalist who witnessed the Russian Revolution describes the day when a workers' government was finally achieved.

The old order's last holdouts surrendered at the Tsar's palace in Petrograd--which was protected as the property of all the people.

An American journalist in Russia during the revolution describes a visit to a penal colony that was transformed by workers' power.