When Bolsheviks stormed the Winter Palace in 1917, it wasn’t just the start of the Russian Revolution, but the beginning of communism’s century-long war on humanity. The global conflict has included ...

LONDON — On May 13, 1907, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin stood in a London church as the Fifth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party planned a revolution. Just 10 years ...

When they came to power in October 1917, many of the Bolsheviks seriously doubted that they could govern the vast, chaotic land of Russia by themselves. “We can’t hold out!” cried one of the prominent ...

This year is the 100 th anniversary of the death of the Soviet Union’s first communist leader, whose legacy in Russia and former Soviet republics is complicated When Erin Hutchinson, an assistant ...

(1) IN DEFENCE OF COUNCIL COMMUNISM. There are so many ideological views conflicting about Russia 1917-1985 that revolutionaries should almost be able to see the nature of modern ideology and ...

Sylvia Pankhurst discusses how the implementation of the New Economic Policy had merely intensified, rather than abolished, capitalism in early 1920s Russia. The appeal which we publish on our front ...

The events of October 1917 continue to shake the world today. And yet they almost didn’t take place. By Simon Sebag Montefiore The first generation of Soviet revolutionaries raised their children amid ...

SIMON: The red, five-pointed star has been a symbol of Russia's Communist Party since 1917. Some accounts say the five points represent the fingers of a worker's hand, others that they're the five ...