The Russian IntelligentsiaThe Russian Intelligentsia, a group of people who shared the bond of being intelligent and against the government, played the key role in overthrowing the tsarist government and instating a new government. The rebels involved in the beginning of the revolution started off ...

Russia Russia, country in eastern Europe and northern Asia, bounded on the north by the Arctic Ocean and on the east by the Pacific Ocean. Formerly the largest republic of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), Russia as it is today was established in 1991, but the history of the Russian...