This is a situation map of the Russian lands — Warsaw to Vladivostok — from the first cracks of 1905 to the death of Lenin in 1924. It opens with the largest contiguous empire on earth painted in charcoal: an autocracy of 130 million subjects and a hundred peoples. Then watch it come apart and be reassembled — the empire flips to the pale blue of a Provisional Government, its heart turns red in October 1917, the west is amputated at Brest-Litovsk, White armies close a ring from Siberia and the south, and finally the red tide floods back out to the old frontiers under a new name.
Twelve chapters argue the revolution rather than merely recount it: why the strongest autocracy in Europe fell in five days, how a coup became “Soviet power,” why the outnumbered Reds won, what the victors then did to the people they had freed, and what exactly had been made by 1924. Every rising, treaty, army and atrocity is drawn where it happened. Take the guided tour — or scrub the timeline and interrogate the map yourself.
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