The Government, for its part, was perhaps in its most hopeless state since its formation. The Kadets, or the Constitutional Democrats, had walked out just two days prior over policy disagreements on ...

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death on Sunday is expected to be met with silence from the current occupant of the Kremlin. But Putin's views on Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and founding father of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, long a place of ...

TODD CHRETIEN describes how Russia's Bolsheviks changed course to call for a second revolution. THE FEBRUARY Revolution in 1917 toppled the Romanov dynasty and replaced it with two competing ...

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1991, Leningrad. The private office of the deputy mayor of the city. A reporter for the city’s television channel interviews a young official from Anatoly Sobchak’s team. In the frame — a man with a ...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, China Míeville, Verso, 384 pages. The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Tariq Ali, Verso ...

In September 1917, Russia’s collapse was imminent. Unbeknown even to the Bolsheviks, they were poised to stage the second Russian Revolution — tragically, the decisive moment that set that great ...

Russian socialists and their relationship to the war played a key role in setting the stage for revolution in Russia. Lenin, the leader of the radical Bolsheviks, was an outlaw and actually lived in ...