Rabinowitch’s four volumes on the October Revolution and the first two years of the civil war were pathbreaking and ...

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known as Lenin. Lenin ranks among the most remarkable figures in world history. He was the theoretical and political ...

Rabinowitch was born into a Russian émigré family shaped by stories of exile after 1917. His parents, members of the Russian ...

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What was the Konstadt Rebellion? Ninety years ago, in March 1921, the largest naval base in Russia – Kronstadt - was the site of a brutal and bloody battle. Civilians and sailors at Kronstadt had ...

The opening of the state archives in the wake of the disintegration of the Stalinist regime has provided us with access to materials vital to an understanding of the complex process that led to the ...

The 39 defendants sat in cages lined up against the wall of a Moscow courtroom one day this month. The prisoners, most of them students in their teens and early twenties, were members of the National ...

Russia's Supreme Court overturns a lower court ruling banning the National Bolshevik Party. We look at what the decision means for the Bolsheviks -- and Russian politics as a whole.