In Lenin on the Train, Catherine Merridale reconstructs Lenin’s dramatic journey from exile in Zurich to revolutionary ...

It is March 1917, and the Russian Empire is entering a whirlwind of change. The unpopular Tsar has just been overthrown. Power now belongs to the Provisional Government on one hand, and the Soviet of ...

All dates in this piece are from the Julian calendar employed in Russia at the time, which was 13 days behind the Gregorian calendar used in Europe and the U.S. In February 1918 the Soviet government ...

Messages from Moscow stated that on Saturday, members of the Diplomatic Corps visited the House of the Unions where the body of [Vladimir] Lenin was lying in state. Count Brockdorff Rantzau, the ...

‘ WHAT can a stranger expect to see, with just an ordinary card, at the Isaakiewski Sobor for Easter midnight mass?’ I asked myself. ‘Better be comfortable while seeing nothing, than crushed to death ...

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A century ago, Lenin's communists turned their guns on rebelling sailors once hailed as the "pride and glory" of the Bolshevik Revolution. This picture is one of only a handful in existence of a ...

A lover of RPGs, Board Games, and Storytelling Joshua is a gamer to the core. He loves story-driven narratives but also spends ample time in the battlefields of varying Call of Duty titles. Despite ...

Only once did we see any attempt to repair the streets in Petrograd. In a side street some mysterious agency had collected a load of wood blocks and two barrels of tar. Most of our longer journeys ...