By drawing on the country’s progressive tradition when it comes to women’s empowerment, Julia Ioffe makes a refreshing ...

In February 1905 a peaceful procession of over 100-thousand unarmed civilians made their way towards his Winter Palace. True in Russian spirit, that day would enter the history books as Bloody Sunday, ...

The only “good” that Lenin believed in was whatever benefited the Bolshevik Party and its Revolution. If it helped the party, it was good; if it didn’t, it was bad, and that certainly meant lying as ...

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

Seeking a mandate from the French people for his policies, Louis XVI convened the Estates General. Events soon outran the ...

In 1825, a group of Russian army officers defied the crown in a bold attempt to end autocracy and serfdom. Their uprising was ...