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 ...

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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Diana Walsh Pasulka has written one of the most successful recent books on the UFO phenomenon. Following the publication of ...

Even as the first western journalist to interview Ayatollah Khomeini, I had no inkling of what was to come. Perhaps we should have learned from history, says Paul Taylor of the European Policy Centre ...

The answer is that the leaders of the Weirdo Right want to treat MAGA like Fugu. If you were to ask the folks who cannot stop making antisemitic and anti-Israel comments if they are against Donald ...

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Was he a demonic master manipulator who seduced half the Russian aristocracy or a misunderstood mystic? Guy Walters picks up ...