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 Russian Revolution and Civil War, 1917-21 (WARNING: No work takes a more ideological and manufactured quality than histories of the Russian Revolution. Among the academics, Rosenberg, McAuley, ...

LONDON (Reuters) - In 1918, Soviet revolutionary Leon Trotsky told Western creditors aghast at the Bolsheviks' repudiation of Russia's external debt: "Gentlemen, you were warned." He reminded them ...

Contrary to the oft-told story of the Russian Revolution — that Lenin and the Bolsheviks swept the Czar from power in October 1917 and Communism was born — Lucy Worsley reveals that a group of women ...

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

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 ...

On August 21, the Molodaia Gvardia Bolshevikov-Leninitsev (Young Guard of Bolshevik-Leninists, YGBL) held meetings in Saint Petersburg and the western Siberian city Chelyabinsk to commemorate the 82nd ...