The Triangle of the Russian Revolution Postcards from the Past Trotsky, Lenin, and Stalin: A triangular power struggle ...

History illuminates the present. I've been reading Stephen Kotkin's widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph Stalin and have encountered many passages that illuminate the present. I ...

Both revolutions of 1917 in Russia, the so-called February and the so-called October, took place during World War I (the Great War) when Russia fought against the Central Powers and their allies as a ...

GOITY, Russia (Reuters) - A black hijab frames the heavily wrinkled face of Kesi Karuyeva, a great-grandmother from Russia's Muslim Chechnya region whose official documents appear to show she is the ...

Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7. This is a very important book, one of the ...

History illuminates the present. I’ve been reading Stephen Kotkin’s widely and justly praised multivolume biography of Joseph ...