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The code has been copied to your clipboard. ST. PETERSBURG/MOSCOW -- The small museum in St. Petersburg located in the apartment where Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin lived in the months before the ...

Step into a respectable American bookstore today, and you’re likely to find a reflection of America’s version of the twentieth century. German and Russian history currently dominate history sections, ...

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death on Sunday is expected to be met with silence from the current occupant of the Kremlin. But Putin's views on Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and founding father of ...

Until a century ago, Karl Marx was an unpracticed intellectual, a prolix babbler who’s thoughts remained an ideal rather than a reality. Then came the Bolshevik Revolution. On November 7 (October 25 ...

October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, China Míeville, Verso, 384 pages. The Dilemmas of Lenin: Terrorism, War, Empire, Love, Revolution, Tariq Ali, Verso ...

One hundred years ago today, on the morning of November 7, 1917, the Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, chaired by Leon Trotsky, issued a proclamation to the citizens of Russia.

Russian socialists and their relationship to the war played a key role in setting the stage for revolution in Russia. Lenin, the leader of the radical Bolsheviks, was an outlaw and actually lived in ...

November will mark the centenary of the Bolshevik coup in St. Petersburg that saw a small sect of radical communists seize control of an empire covering one-sixth of the earth's surface. What followed ...