In the latest of our series on great revolutions, Dominic Alexander looks at how the Russian socialists had to confront the ...

This report was given at the annual convention of the Association for Slavic, East European and Eurasian Studies, November 21, 2010. The subject of this panel is a man who remains, even 70 years ...

The split at the 1903 Congress anticipated social upheaval in Russia. The Russian Revolution of 1905 raised crucial problems of strategy for Russian Social Democracy. Despite the defeat of the ...

IN THE summer of 1939, a few short weeks before Hitler's invasion of Poland, Harvard historian William L. Langer was preparing to leave for a year's study in Mexico and Central America when he was ...

MOSCOW, December 17. /TASS/. The streaming company Netflix has bought the rights to the Russian series Trotsky, a representative with the Sreda production company told TASS. Sreda is in charge of ...

Asserting that Trotsky was a British agent, Rakovsky said that he himself, after being shown a forged letter which constituted a threat to him, was taken to a dinner at a London restaurant to meet ...

After seizing control of Russia from the Provisional Government, the Bolsheviks had to safeguard their fragile grip on the reins of power. Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end ...

The Russian imperial army and navy disintegrated after the outbreak of the Revolution of 1917, so the Council of the People's Commissars created the Workers' and Peasants' Red Army on a voluntary ...

Before the Russian revolution in 1917, it housed enemies of the Tsarist state like Alexander Kerensky, who would lead the February Revolution and Anatoly Lunacharsky who would become Lenin's top ...

Marilyn Vogt-Downey was a Russian translator for many years. She translated the writings of Leon Trotsky for the Pathfinder Press.Writings of Leon Trotsky series. She also translated ...