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 ...

Rod Dreher, senior editor: For someone who is constantly reading—indeed, I usually have two or three books going at the same time—I am far too easily intimidated by the size of a book. I am not proud ...

WHAT is there new in the peasant policy of the Soviet Government? The history of the Soviet Government's method of dealing with the peasants is a brilliant illustration of the truth of the Latin ...

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.

Until a century ago, Karl Marx was an unpracticed intellectual, a prolix babbler who’s thoughts remained an ideal rather than a reality. Then came the Bolshevik Revolution. On November 7 (October 25 ...

Exactly a century ago, the Bolsheviks came to power in Russia and began a reign of terror unprecedented in human history. What is the place of the Soviet Revolution ...

Todd Chretien describes how Lenin and the Bolshevik Party changed course after the Tsar was toppled to call for a second revolution in Russia in 1917. THE FEBRUARY Revolution in 1917 toppled the ...

ON November 8, 1917, the storm-clouds of revolution hung low over the ancient city of Moscow. The Soviets held the fate of Moscow in their hands. About a week earlier, Riley and I had rented a room in ...

A short account of the attack by the Bolsheviks on the detachment led by the revolutionary Petrenko in May 1918 at Tsaritsyn. "It seemed to Antonov-Ovseenko [commander-in-chief of Soviet troops in ...

Paul Heideman tells the little-known story of the African Blood Brotherhood, which recruited and trained the first generation of Black socialist cadre in the U.S. TWO THINGS happened in early November ...

Until a century ago, Karl Marx was an unpracticed intellectual, a prolix babbler who’s thoughts remained an ideal rather than a reality. Then came the Bolshevik Revolution. On November 7 (October 25 ...