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1917 BOLSHEVIK REVOLUTION
Quote of the Day by Vladimir Lenin: “There are no morals in politics; there is only expedience. A scoundrel may be of use to us just because he is a...” — What Lenin’s most controversial quote teaches about power, strategy, human nature, and the hidden costs of achieving success without principles or ethicsQuote of the Day by Vladimir Lenin offers a powerful lesson on power, politics, leadership, and human nature. The revolutionary leader beli...- Quote of the Day by last Russian Emperor Nicholas II: ‘There is no justice among…’Quote of the Day: Nicholas II, Russia's last emperor, saw his rule end amid unrest. His reign concluded with the fall of the monarchy. A qu...
- Another wave of public outcry tests Putin's rule in wartime RussiaRussian influencers are publicly criticising President Putin's government and policies. This dissent stems from economic hardship and stric...
- Quote of the day by Vladimir Lenin: ‘There are decades where nothing happens, and there are…’Vladimir Lenin, a pivotal Russian revolutionary, spearheaded the 1917 Bolshevik takeover, ending imperial rule. He championed a disciplined...
- Wagner boss Prigozhin's insurrection: 21st century Russia's Kornilov Affair?As his nation was fighting a major war, a Russian general came to the conclusion that the current political dispensation was incapable and ...
- Celebrating what the comrades startedMarch 8, 1917, saw Soviet female textile workers in Petrograd (today's Saint Petersburg) participate in a huge, citywide protest. Their dem...
- Mikhail Gorbachev: The man who tried to free countriesBy the Great Terror of 1937, the tone for life in the Soviet Union was set. When Mikhail Gorbachev died on Tuesday, a Stalinist in Russia s...
- Don't close the embassy, US ambassador tells RussiaPresident Vladimir Putin has cast the invasion of Ukraine as a turning point in Russian history: a revolt against the hegemony of the Unite...
- US to end Russia's ability to pay international investorsSince the first rounds of sanctions, the Treasury Department has given banks a license to process any dollar-denominated bond payments from...
- Russia makes last-minute bond payment to avoid defaultRussia has not defaulted on its foreign debts since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, when the collapse of the Russian Empire led to the cr...
- Russia may be in default, Moody's saysIf Moscow is declared in default, it would mark Russia's first major default on foreign bonds since the years following the 1917 Bolshevik ...
- Russia, Belarus squarely in 'default territory' on billions in debt: World BankThe specter of Russia defaulting on $40 billion of external bonds - its first major such default since the years following the 1917 Bolshev...
- Putin's erasing of Ukraine's distinct history reveals his imperial ambitionsOne of the striking elements of Putin's latest speech about Ukraine, which accompanied the recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independen...
- History of hunger: A famine 100 years ago is key to understanding the Ukrainian crisisIt’s estimated that 3.9 million Ukrainians died of starvation due to the famine.
- Russia hosts first royal wedding a century after Bolshevik revolution as Romanov heir ties the knot with Italian fiancéeGrand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov and Rebecca Virginia Bettarini took their vows at Saint Isaac's cathedral.
- The story of food and football in RussiaAny major sporting event like the World Cup is, when conducted by an authoritarian state, an exercise in the bread-and-circuses approach to...
- View: The 1917 Russian Revolution was a German plotWas Lenin a German agent, as critics claim? Surely not. But without German assistance, he would not have come to power.
- Russia doesn’t snoop on its own, Ha, Ha, HaThe regime of Vladimir Putin is trying to cobble together another security state that attempts to restore the glories of the past Slavic em...
- Mamata Banerjee plans to rewrite history; may drop Marx, Engels from school textsA state govt panel on school syllabus has suggested that Marxism's founders Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels be dropped from history textbook...
- Mamata Banerjee's new move, End of Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels in West Bengal textbooks?Marx and Engels- founders of Marxism-may be out of history syllabus in govt schools in WBengal following a recommendation by a state educat...
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