A pioneering Swiss melodrama, shot in 1934 by an Estonian born in the Russian Empire who fled the Bolshevik Revolution, has ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir Lenin or Leon Trotsky. While Lenin and Trotsky saw October 1917 as a ...

Ukraine officially celebrates 15 July as Ukrainian Statehood Day, marking the foundation of its statehood through the ...

Inflation rose 2.7% in June (compared to June last year), which isn’t a crisis, but it isn’t great either. This is the highest reading since ...

Staying open can mean coping with security service raids, harassment, verbal attacks by lawmakers and an exodus of staff ...

Clerics from the Russian Orthodox Church have condemned the practice of writing the word ‘God’ in lowercase, calling it disrespectful and sinful. The ...

Solidarity's introduction to Alexandra Kollontai's "Workers Opposition". Content warning: some archaic language. Libcom note: This is the introduction to Solidarity's 3rd reprint of The Workers ...

In fact, as Juliet Rix shows in her new book, the capital now has a remarkable and reassuring array of statues of women. Here ...

A TikToker has revealed that she is a direct descendant of one of the 20th century’s most violent warlords, known as “the Bloody Baron.” Leonie von Ungern-Sternberg's ancestors have a dark history.

Angela Rayner 's monitors of workplace chit-chat have already been dubbed 'banter police' or 'banter tsars', but a different ...

The referendum was a critical experience for the international working class, with enormous political lessons that are of ...