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From 1914 to 1924 Saint Petersburg was re-named Petrograd. After Lenin's death, Petrograd was re-named Leningrad. After the dissolution of the USSR, Leningrad was re-named St. Petersburg, after the Tsar 'Peter the Great'.

A proletarian is person of the working class; one who typically owns no property and whose daily survival depends upon his/her ability to sell his/her labor power to another for wages.

It states that many of the films extras et al were participants of the actual October 1917 revolution, such as the Red Guards, soldiers and sailors, and too, Nikolai Podvolsky, who was one of then leaders of the armed uprising. The film historian Jey Leyda has confirmed that Eisentein (who was present in Petrograd during 1917) and his collaborators conducted extensive research, including accessing Esther Shub's newsreel archive and hundreds of news photographs from 1917.

Historically, the bourgeoisie arose as the urban merchant class, midway between the landed nobility and the peasantry of feudal society. In capitalist society, the bourgeoisie are the ruling class and principal owners of the major means of production, finance, communication, etc.

Literally, it translates as 'majority' and refers to a radical group within the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party that coalesced beginning in the early 1900s. That revolutionary socialist section of the RSDLP led the October Revolution in 1917 and then formed the Russian Communist Party in 1918. It is also sometimes used as shorthand to refer to someone who shares the outlook of Leninism.

This is someone who shifts ones allegiance from one party to another, one train of thought, one ideology etc to another. In this process it is seen as an act of betrayal and treachery toward their original beliefs.

Pravda is a Russian word meaning 'Truth' and the name of a newspaper from 1912 to 1991. It was one of the official periodicals of the Russian (later all-Union) Communist Party.