NICE
The Norton Institute for Continuing Education (NICE) announces its first open??lecture of the 2017 – 2018 academic year. This presentation will be held in the Hindle Auditorium on the Wheaton College Campus, 26 East Main Street, Norton, Massachusetts,??and??is free and open to the public. No RSVP is required
The Russian Revolution: 1917
Gary Hylander, Presenter
Tuesday October 10, 2017
1:00 – 2:30 pm
Wheaton College, Hindle Auditorium, Science Center
This October marks the centennial of the Bolshevik Revolution. As a member of the Triple Entente, Russia was poorly prepared militarily and industrially for the outbreak of the Great War of 1914. Despite his lack of ability and military training, Tsar Nicholas II took personal charge of all military operations. Disaster followed. Unable to control events, Nicholas II abdicated in March 1917. The 300 year old Romanov dynasty was over. Promising ???peace, land and bread???, Lenin???s Bolsheviks seized the Winter Palace, the seat of Kerensky???s Provisional Government and proclaimed the formation of the new Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR). Suggested reading: Lenin On The Train by Catherine Merridale.??
Gary Hylander, PhD, is a Professor of History.
NICE, a non-profit affiliate of the??Road Scholar??(formerly named Elderhostel) Institute Network??and a collaborative effort of Wheaton College and Wingate Assisted Living of Norton, provides non-credit nominally-priced college-level liberal arts courses and free lectures for over-55 year-olds living primarily in the Norton,??Attleboro, Mansfield, Sharon, Foxboro,??Taunton,??Stoughton, Easton, and Canton areas.
For complete details of the lecture plus other information, please consult the NICE web site at??www.nicecourse.org.