The Russian people had wanted revolution. It had to come. What they meant by revolution was the overthrow of an inept and suffocating tyranny and its substitution by some more liberal system.

However, only about 20,000 found their way into America during the period that followed the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 up through World War II. World War I, the Russian Revolution, and then the ...

Former Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov, accused of high treason, is running for membership in the Russian Academy of ...

The fact that the U.S. president, as usual, has broadcast, indeed trumpeted, his activities in the global media on a constant ...

This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February Revolution, which arose out of the war and its extreme exacerbation of the crisis of Russian society. After the February ...

Sverdlov, Volodarsky, and Uritsky, all active leaders, were assassinated in the early days of the Revolution. Lenin, the flaming torch that fired the Russian masses and sought to fire the world ...

In the latest in Dominic Alexander’s series on great revolutions, he looks at how Russia went from bloody imperialist war to ...

Red flag-draped rallies in Moscow marked the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution on Tuesday. But despite the demonstrations, the crimes of the past and faded memories have made some ...

Victims and survivors of a pogrom against the Jews of Proskurov, Ukraine, during the civil war that followed the Russian Revolution. The word pogrom literally means "riot" in Russian. Commonly ...

1905 Revolution — Causes and events The 1905 ... events and effects The dire social conditions of the Russian people, rural and urban, and unpopularity of the Tsar's regime forced him to ...