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The tsarist forgery that poisoned a nation's mind
The document, titled Protocols of the Elders of Zion, arrived in Britain around 1919, carried in the luggage of Russian ...
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 ...
A century on, Battleship Potemkin’s vision of oppression, courage and collective resistance still crackles with an energy ...
We were the children of 1812.” That was when Napoleon invaded Russia; two years later Russian forces entered Paris. They ...
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The Russian Civil War in 1 minute
In one minute, we trace the Russian Civil War (1917–1923), a brutal conflict between the Red Army of the Bolsheviks and the White forces. Using Google Earth, we follow battles stretching from Moscow ...
These Fabergé eggs survived revolutions, smuggling, world wars, and the scariest of them all — the auction block.
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 ...
Ukraine struck a heat and power station in the Moscow region on Sunday with drones, triggering a major fire and cutting off ...
Bolshevik robot bungles, fail Caesars, tech glitches, riot responses and elaborate hoaxes. Exams are the most stressful ...
In the aftermath of the Russian Revolution, the Bolshevik nomenklatura housed themselves in hotels redesignated Houses of the Soviets. There were up to 29, as the movement exercised its genius for ...
A Jewish corps in the Russian army consisting of volunteers was planned by Alexander Kerensky in the first days of the fight between the Mensheviks and the Bolsheviks prior to the fall of the ...
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