On January 15, VTsIOM published its assessment of Russians' knowledge of history — the results turned out to be contradictory ...

NPR's Scott Simon asks Robert Littell about Leon Trotsky's time living in the Bronx. Littell is the author of "Bronshtein in the Bronx." ...

The campaign in Britain against nuclear weapons is beginning to turn towards the working class. As it does so, it will create ...

Paris: A Ukrainian band is treating international audiences to their country s traditional folk music, spiced up with world ...

Much of modern Ukraine’s territory was part of the Russian empire under the tsars and then the Soviet Union following the Bolshevik revolution.

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid tribute to the Heroes of Kruty, young men who held off a Bolshevik attack on Kyiv more than 100 years ago. "A feat that each of us should remember, ...

Much of modern Ukraine's territory was part of the Russian empire under the tsars and then the Soviet Union following the Bolshevik revolution. Many Western analysts believe that President ...

The Russian Empire implemented ... performance” in WWI contributed to the 1917 Revolution, followed by a Civil War between the “Reds” (Bolsheviks) and the “Whites” (anti-Bolshevik ...

According to history, the Russian Imperial Romanov family, who had living relations with the late Prince Philip were all shot and bayoneted to death by Bolshevik revolutionaries on the night of ...

The outbreak of the War in August 1914 led to a wave of patriotism sweeping the Empire. However, early defeats resulted in the mood changing. In 1915, Nicholas declared himself Commander in Chief ...

Although there are still a few commentators who see the collapse of the Romanovs and the rise of Lenin’s Bolsheviks as a historical moment of rare hope for humanity (see China Miéville’s recent ...

How about the Russian Revolution, which was launched in March ... of the working class only eight months later, under the Bolshevik Party led Lenin and Trotsky? In fact, the October Revolution ...