One hundred years ago, the Russia Revolution rocked the world, first with the overthrow of the Tsar in February and then with the Bolshevik-led taking of full power by the soviets (elected councils of ...

The only “good” that Lenin believed in was whatever benefited the Bolshevik Party and its Revolution. If it helped the party, it was good; if it didn’t, it was bad, and that certainly meant lying as ...

It’s always interesting to delve a little bit in the democratic history of a country. In autocratic Russia, it was very short ...

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

1991, Leningrad. The private office of the deputy mayor of the city. A reporter for the city’s television channel interviews a young official from Anatoly Sobchak’s team. In the frame — a man with a ...

MOSCOW -- Criticizing stronger ties with the United States, demonstrators rallied across Russia on Wednesday to commemorate the 1917 Bolshevik revolution and speak out against an alliance unthinkable ...

It was untrue because it overlooked the Allied intervention in the Russian Civil War of 1918-20, which the British even more than the Americans had plenty of reasons to forget. “It was an ...