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 ...

John Odling-Smee’s book describes the transformation of planned economies after the 1991 breakup of the Soviet Union. The author is a retired economist who from 1992 to 2003 headed the IMF team ...

More than a century after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s decision to organise the Soviet state around national ...

Since its 2013 debut, Art Basel Hong Kong has evolved into something far more ambitious than a mere marketplace for the ultra ...

Most histories credit the West—but Russia was actually ahead in granting women political, educational, and workplace equality ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. During the late 1960s, a top-secret Soviet program to sneak nuclear weapons around U.S. early warning radars was mistaken for a ...

Since the beginning of the 20th century, the Russian Empire has been in a permanent socio-economic crisis, the first expression of which was the revolution of 1905. The crisis deepened during the ...

The 1917 Russian Revolution, at least for a time, abolished the police. Instead of a professional police force alienated from the people, Russian workers organised themselves on a mass scale to ...

WASHINGTON — Korean War veteran Royce Williams, who was involved in a secretive dogfight with seven Soviet fighter planes more than 70 years ago, will receive the Medal of Honor, the White House ...

In the waning years of the Soviet Union, most of the citizens in that cold tyranny could see that their system was irredeemably broken. But for the most part, they marched through the same routines, ...

In November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized Petrograd and overthrew the Provisional Government, but their grip on Russia was far weaker than it appeared. This episode explains why the revolution succeeded ...

“The working class cannot simply lay hold of the ready-made state machinery and wield it for its own purposes.” This sentence was the only addition Karl Marx made to the Communist Manifesto. It was ...