More than a century after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s decision to organise the Soviet state around national ...

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.

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For a virtually illiterate peasant born in the depths of Siberia in January 1869, Grigori Rasputin had the most extraordinary impact on history. In fact, muses Sir Antony Beevor, the Russian mystic ...

This story is part of the "Hidden Canon" – a special series celebrating Ukrainian classic literature and aiming to bring it to a wider international audience. The series is supported ...

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I’m with US Democrat senator John Fetterman and I don’t agree with opposition frontbencher Andrew Hastie. Fetterman supported ...

Josh Ireland re-examines the assassination of Leon Trotsky in 1940, exploring the characters and motivations behind one of history’s most famous murders.

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Philosopher and social theorist who advocated a new direction for German thought after the horrors of Nazi rule ...

Scott Morrison's assertion that the chase to secure vaccines in early 2021 was "not a race" cost him dearly. A similar global contest is already underway, only this time it involves securing energy ...