Reed’s is one of six lives served up by historian Simon Hall in his new book. Three of them are revolutionaries — Vladimir ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

Women played a central role in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and author Cathy Porter is making sure those women are not ...

Including: Sylvia Pankhurst Petrograd poem, Frank Penman in London, Irish strike and lockout, media baron Lord Northcliffe's sham support for workers, Rosa Luxemburg on the Russian revolution ...

A new exhibition spotlights Natalia Pavlovna Paley, the granddaughter of a czar. She built a new life for herself in France and the U.S., appearing in films and on the pages of glossy magazines ...

I just, uh, kind of forgot to do the October Revolution? I got really into fiddling with the party makeup of the Petrograd Soviet and someone went and convened a government without me.

The February Revolution had sent the Romanovs packing and the Petrograd Soviet was calling.

As part of the wider crisis in authority, the Petrograd Soviet had limited control over revolts in the provinces and agrarian communities.

It was unanimously resolved to re-name Petrograd Leningrad, and also to raise statues of Lenin in the capitals of various states forming the Union of Soviet Republics, namely in Moscow, Leningrad ...

For students of history, the anniversary of Russia's October Revolution—which took place 106 years ago—is a moment for commiseration, not celebration. When Leon Trotsky's Petrograd Soviet ...