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The coup that didn't need an army
Most people picture a revolution as something loud and total: barricades, cannon fire, a city on the edge of collapse. The October Revolution of 1917 was not that. When the Bolsheviks seized power in ...
More than a century after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s decision to organise the Soviet state around national ...
Most histories credit the West—but Russia was actually ahead in granting women political, educational, and workplace equality ...
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Petrograd fell quickly but Russia was never fully in Bolshevik hands
In November 1917, the Bolsheviks overthrew the Provisional Government in Petrograd with remarkable speed. But this episode ...
Since its 2013 debut, Art Basel Hong Kong has evolved into something far more ambitious than a mere marketplace for the ultra ...
The Soviet Union detonated its first atomic bomb, known in the West as Joe-1, on Aug. 29, 1949, at Semipalatinsk Test Site, in Kazakhstan. The Soviets called their first atomic test "First Lightning." ...
The Portland spy ring trial began on 13 March 1961. The BBC reported on a Cold War tale of espionage, adultery, exorcism – and a deceptively ordinary-looking bungalow. The enduring image of a Cold War ...
March 8 (Thursday) - Shortage of bread caused unrest. Workingmen struck at various munitions factories. Hungry people raided food shops. March 9 (Friday) - Petrograd streets were under guard of ...
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