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In November 1917 the Bolsheviks seized Petrograd and overthrew the Provisional Government, but their grip on Russia was far ...

Trump’s zero-sum belligerence has shattered the reputation of the U.S. to such an extent that even Greenlanders are ...

A basic question all Americans should ask themselves before they draw any other conclusions about events in Minneapolis is ...

The Kyiv-Pechersk Lavra (the Monastery of the Caves) was damaged during a large-scale Russian missile and drone attack on ...

To avoid dissolving into competing national stories once American hegemony fades, Europe must embrace an image of itself ...

There have been huge debates about the nature of Stalinist Russia, China, Cuba and others, with many calling them "socialist" ...

In 1978, Soviet scientists stumbled upon a family living in a remote part of Russia. They hadn’t interacted with outsiders for decades. Almost half a century later, one of them is still there ...

One of the Bolsheviks’ lesser-known revolutionary projects was the Persian Soviet Socialist Republic, which existed in ...

Spiridon Ivanovich Putin, born in 1879, was a notable Russian chef whose life spanned the tumultuous periods of the ...

As the historian noted, on 21 November 1945 a secret resolution of the Central Committee of the All-Union Communist Party (Bolsheviks) was issued “On organizing trials of former servicemen of the ...

"Russia's essence has remained unchanged - it still poses a threat to Central and Eastern Europe," the Polish president ...