After the fall of the Tsar in 1917, Russia descended into chaos. The Bolsheviks fought to seize control of a collapsing empire, while the White Army, foreign powers, and nationalist groups tried to ...

It’s always interesting to delve a little bit in the democratic history of a country. In autocratic Russia, it was very short ...

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To have supposed a short week ago that the colossal Russian bureaucratic machine, which for three hundred years has withstood assaults from within and without, would to-day be scrapped beside the ...

Vol. 68, No. 10, Special Issue: Against the Grain: Essays in Honour of Geoffrey Swain (December 2016), pp. 1635-1653 (19 pages) Published By: Taylor & Francis, Ltd. This essay examines how Russia's ...

In this work, first serialized in Pravda in September 1925, Trotsky analyzes the achievements and principal dynamics of the ...

After winning the Nobel Prize for her searing portraits of the Soviet world unraveling, Svetlana Alexievich worries about the ...

Manuscripts pertaining to Jewish life and lore in Eastern Europe, some of them at least 1000 years old, are being sold by the Soviet Union to the National Library in Ottawa as part of a new cultural ...

"The scope of research was intentionally limited to the work of the Moscow designers ..."--Page 7. New, larger version of: Iz istorii sovetskogo kostiuma. 1972. The early history of Soviet clothing ...