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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 ...
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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 ...
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 ...
The mosaics covering the facades of factories, cultural centers, and apartment blocks across eastern Ukraine were designed with a specific kind of permanence in mind. They survived the Soviet collapse ...
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