On November 7, 1917, under the leadership of the Russian Bolshevik Party, headed by V.I. Lenin, the October Socialist ...

The Bolsheviki leaders in control of all communication with Petrograd today formally announced to the world that they had "deposed the Kerensky government." ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.

"The leader has forbidden fleeing the freest country." A big new interview with the underground media of Kharkov for Camille ...

Discover key historic events on November 7, including FDR's fourth term win, the Bolshevik Revolution, Nixon's re-election, and pivotal U.S. elections.

Discover the significant world events, notable birthdays, and notable deaths that occurred on November 6. Check what happened ...

Canel, First Secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of Cuba and President of the Republic, celebrated ...

Today in History for Nov. 7: In 1659, the Pyrenees were designated as the boundary between France and Spain, thus ending a 24-year war between the two countries. In 1665, the "London Gazette" was ...

A remote Arctic island once used as a Soviet weather station has become overrun by polar bears. On Kolyuchin Island, in Russia’s Chukchi Sea, dozens of bears now roam through abandoned buildings and ...

America’s transformation under President Donald Trump has parallels with Mikhail Gorbachev’s reforms in the last years of the Soviet Union, and the effects will be felt throughout the democratic, ...

Igor Dyatlov was a tinkerer, an inventor, and a devotee of the wilderness. Born in 1936, near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), he built radios as a kid and loved camping. When the Soviet Union launched ...

Russia’s first campaign in Grozny (1994–1996) exposed major weaknesses in urban warfare tactics and equipment, revealing the need for better training, intelligence, coordination, and flexibility in ...