The Bolsheviks did not always have greater numbers, but they had something their enemies lacked. This episode explains how unity of leadership, ideological discipline, and centralized decision making ...

The German fascist Colonel Max Bauer (former head of department of the OHL1), who even had to live illegally in the Ebert and Hindenburg Republic, writes in his book “The Land of the Red Tsars”: "In ...

In the game Lissitzky’s Revenge, you are the tiny red triangle against the mighty white circle depicted in El Lissitzky's 1919 Suprematist poster "Beat the Whites with the Red Wedge." While the action ...

How did a relatively small faction manage to take control in a country as massive and unstable as Russia? This video breaks down the odds facing the Bolsheviks and the conditions that helped them win.

And they may be the most unlikely adversaries you’ll ever find matched in U.S. District Court in Louisville. On one side of a lawsuit filed in May is the “Party of Communists, USA.” On the other is ...

The authorities in Kyiv continued their policy of removing Soviet-era monuments in the capital, dismantling a memorial to the January 1918 communist uprising, “another symbol of Bolshevik tyranny,” ...

My brother Evgeni Yakovlovich used to say that the decisive part in the subjection of the intelligentsia was played not by terror and bribery (though, God knows ...