Immediately after the October Revolution of 1917, many state institutions in Russia were paralyzed, but for a very short time – the Bolsheviks dealt with the problem mercilessly. Ten days after the ...

ON November 8, 1917, the storm-clouds of revolution hung low over the ancient city of Moscow. The Soviets held the fate of Moscow in their hands. About a week earlier, Riley and I had rented a room in ...

Discover Lenin's role in the Bolshevik Revolution, his leadership's impact on the USSR, and the controversial legacy of his Marxist governance.

The Russian Revolution took place across two armed revolts in the space of just months IT is a common assumption that the Russian revolution swept away the Tsarist monarchy and immediately ushered in ...

Public Domain In the fall of 1919, anti-Bolshevik forces nearly triumphed. They were just several hundred kilometers from the Kremlin, where Lenin and other Red leaders were residing. In the summer of ...

I’m reading one of the best books I’ve ever seen, historian Yuri Slezkine’s The House of Government: A Saga of the Russian Revolution. It’s a massive — over 1,000 pages — history of the Bolshevik ...

On November 7th, the dwindling tribe of Communist Party loyalists and nostalgists will commemorate the hundredth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution. Vladimir Putin, however, has made it clear ...

If you've been hesitating on your centenary reading about the Russian Revolution of 1917 because you don't know where to begin, wait no longer. Todd Chretien, the editor of Eyewitnesses to the Russian ...