We were the children of 1812.” That was when Napoleon invaded Russia; two years later Russian forces entered Paris. They ...

The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued ...

After the Tsar’s fall in 1917, Russia spiraled into a violent struggle for power. Using detailed 3D animation, this video ...

This article explains that there are significant differences between the labor movement and the socialist/anarchist movement.

Julie Christie remains as magnetic as ever in the mammoth big-screen adaptation of Boris Pasternak’s novel ...

How the Russian Civil War Led to the 'Red Terror' and Infamous Gulag' Host of History Hit podcast 'Warfare' Dr James Rogers sits down with military historian and author of 'Russia: Revolution and ...

A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...

Dynastic Jewels, the Al Thani Collection’s glittery exhibition, has recently opened in the Hôtel de la Marine: the very building, formerly the Hôtel du Garde-Meuble, where the ancien régime housed its ...

New York Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani’s socialist agenda rests on the belief that expansive public programs can be sustained by ...

Rasputin was a Siberian wanderer whose hypnotic eyes and whispered prophecies drew Russia's royal family into a web of blind faith, scandal, and political ruin ...

The Decembrist revolt on December 14, 1825 saw army officers and intellectuals in favor of liberal reforms attempt to seize power after the sudden death of Tsar Alexander I, only to be crushed by the ...