In 2024, Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist N. Scott Momaday died at the age of 89 at his home in New Mexico. Momaday's debut ...

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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 ...

The U.S. and other countries, including the U.K. and Australia, are celebrating Women’s History Month in March, featuring International Women’s Day on March 8. This year, President Joe Biden said in ...

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 ...

Mark Edele receives funding from the Australian Research Council. His book, The Soviet Union. A Short History covers some similar ground as this essay, but in greater depth. It will be published by ...