The first issue of the Bolshevik newspaper Vperyod appeared in Geneva, providing an organ for Lenin and his supporters during the growing revolutionary crisis. The source date is 22 December 1904...
A political general strike developed into an armed uprising. Workers erected barricades and revolutionary fighting groups confronted troops and police. The source date is 7 December Old Style.
Government troops broke the main centres of armed resistance, including the Presnya district. The Moscow Soviet called off the strike, marking the defeat of the revolution’s final major urban...
