Vladimir Lenin, a pivotal Russian revolutionary, spearheaded the 1917 Bolshevik takeover, ending imperial rule. He championed a disciplined...

As his nation was fighting a major war, a Russian general came to the conclusion that the current political dispensation was incapable and ...

March 8, 1917, saw Soviet female textile workers in Petrograd (today's Saint Petersburg) participate in a huge, citywide protest. Their dem...

By 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...

President Vladimir Putin has cast the invasion of Ukraine as a turning point in Russian history: a revolt against the hegemony of the Unite...

Since the first rounds of sanctions, the Treasury Department has given banks a license to process any dollar-denominated bond payments from...

Russia has not defaulted on its foreign debts since the Bolshevik Revolution in 1917, when the collapse of the Russian Empire led to the cr...

If Moscow is declared in default, it would mark Russia's first major default on foreign bonds since the years following the 1917 Bolshevik ...

The specter of Russia defaulting on $40 billion of external bonds - its first major such default since the years following the 1917 Bolshev...

One of the striking elements of Putin's latest speech about Ukraine, which accompanied the recognition of Donetsk and Luhansk as independen...

It’s estimated that 3.9 million Ukrainians died of starvation due to the famine.

Grand Duke George Mikhailovich Romanov and Rebecca Virginia Bettarini took their vows at Saint Isaac's cathedral.

Any major sporting event like the World Cup is, when conducted by an authoritarian state, an exercise in the bread-and-circuses approach to...

Was Lenin a German agent, as critics claim? Surely not. But without German assistance, he would not have come to power.

The regime of Vladimir Putin is trying to cobble together another security state that attempts to restore the glories of the past Slavic em...

A state govt panel on school syllabus has suggested that Marxism's founders Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels be dropped from history textbook...

Marx and Engels- founders of Marxism-may be out of history syllabus in govt schools in WBengal following a recommendation by a state educat...