1917, Tweeted: Chronicle of the Russian Revolution (Part 7, April 17-23)
(World News Russia)

The Moscow Times and Project1917 bring you the next installment of the most compelling stories of 1917. In the seventh episode of our series, which takes place one hundred years ago this week, Lenin receives a less-than-warm welcome from his party, Alexandra Kollontai promotes socialism and feminism among soldiers` wives and mothers and British hospitality toward the Romanov family proves lacking. See previous episodes here. April 17: Shortly after arriving back in Petrograd, Lenin receives a less-than-warm welcome from his own party. His wife Nadezhda Krupskaya describes his failure at a meeting of Bolshevik deputies: Ilyich [Lenin´s patronymic] had barely woken when his comrades came to...