Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...
The ideology that Lenin championed and spread over a vast territory is something of a sideshow in modern Russia. The Communist Party, although the largest opposition grouping in parliament, holds only ...
For most of us in the West, until the fall of the Berlin Wall “Russia” was synonymous with the Soviet Union. Among the 15 ...
Lenin’s writings make clear that imperialism is not just an economic phenomenon. Political and military aspects also matter.
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Lenin's suspicious death

On January 22, 1924, I stood approximately 10 kilometers southeast of Moscow, in front of Gorky’s dacha. Vladimir Lenin, who ...
One of his books is simply entitled “Russia,” where he examines the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Bolshevik takeover of that country. The book, as you would expect, contains much information ...
Explore insights on Russia's imperial structure and the patterns of decline shared by empires, as discussed by historian ...
Wayne Price reviews Loren Goldner's "Revolution, Defeat, and Theoretical Underdevelopment: Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia" (2017). Originally published on anarkismo.net and linked from issue 18 of ...
Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A growing ...