Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, joined by 29 other Russian exiles, a Pole and a Swiss, was on his way to Russia to try to seize power from the government and declare a “dictatorship of the proletariat ...

He did use violence, though. His Brown Shirt thugs intimidated many a German into voting for Hitler. However, even then, it was the Great Depression that ultimately put Hitler in power.

While Trump wants to improve relations with Putin, many in Washington are skeptical about the future of Russia's energy ...

In The Death Of Stalin, perhaps the world’s foremost historian of the Soviet era, Sheila Fitzpatrick, gives us the full ...

The memory of mercy can temper aggression, and peace can sometimes be sown in acts of care. A century ago, as Russia grappled ...

The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik ...

As the Russian war against Ukraine grinds on , much to the frustration of President Trump, a quick look down the road at the ...

Boris Berezovsky, the Russian oligarch, was found hanged in his Sunningdale home in March 2013. Born to Ashkenazi Jewish parents, Berezovsky converted to Russian Orthodoxy in 1994. His leap of ...

Dominic Alexander concludes our series on the great revolutions by looking at the aftermath of the Russian revolution and ...

The region broke away from Moldova following the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1990, but it is not recognised as a state.

On April 9th, 2019, Redditor [3] DemonicMonkeyMan posted the image with the mock quote attributed to Lenin: "The Bolshevik revolution is not complete until every person on this college campus is ...

It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Tony Gilroy's series takes a key plot from a bank heist ...