If the French Revolution of 1789 defined European — and world — history, in the 19th century, the Bolshevik Revolution in Russia in 1917 did the same for the 20th century. The historian Eric Hobsbawm, ...

The October Revolution, also known as the Bolshevik Revolution, was a pivotal event in Russian and world history that started on this day in 1917. The October Revolution was a revolution of the ...

One hundred years ago this spring, there were remarkable events in Russia. But when I was young it was the October Revolution that I was taught about—how it had ushered in the world’s first worker’s ...

On January 21, 1924, Lenin, historic leader of the Bolshevik revolution, died. He was the man who turned the Russia of the Czars into the Soviet empire whose characteristics persist. The abundant ...

Stalin was born a very poor person, and he developed in time into what I would call an outlaw. He began as a relatively religious person, as a young man. He was a romantic poet. He wrote poems in ...

Shahrbanu Saremi is the translator of the book originally published in 2013. The book is from the series “Perspectives on Modern World History”, which provides multiple views of momentous events in ...

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My brother Evgeni Yakovlovich used to say that the decisive part in the subjection of the intelligentsia was played not by terror and bribery (though, God knows ...