The Russian Bolsheviks cemented their power after the October revolution and the civil war that followed, thanks to bloody repression and conscienceless crackdowns. But it was all in name of a greater ...

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 ...

Unlike their opponents the Bolsheviks followed a single leadership and ideology. This part explains how discipline loyalty and centralized decision making allowed them to survive crises and defeat ...

Photographic evidence from Moscow and Rome to settle the most significant controversy in which Soviet Commissar for Foreign Affairs Maxim Maximovich Litvinoff has become involved in recent years ...

In this short but insightful article, Camillo Berneri tries to analyze as fairly as possible the causes for the failure of the Russian revolution, taking account of both “the errors and the horrors” ...

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 ...

A short account of the attack by the Bolsheviks on the detachment led by the revolutionary Petrenko in May 1918 at Tsaritsyn. "It seemed to Antonov-Ovseenko [commander-in-chief of Soviet troops in ...

One hundred years ago on Friday, John Reed was in St. Petersburg watching Lenin, Trotsky and the rest of the Bolsheviks take over Russia. It was interesting to read his account, “Ten Days That Shook ...