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From grand epics like Reds to more underrated movies like Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny, these are the best movies about ...
For more than a century since the Russian Revolution, the mystery and romance of the bygone Romanov era has continued to ...
The Soviets did modernize things, but at what a price? Richard Pipes says the Russian Revolution killed 9 million people. Robert Conquest believes that at least 20 million and probably as many as ...
In 1917, war, famine, and fury ignited a revolution that would topple a 300-year-old dynasty and reshape global politics for ...
One hundred years ago on Wednesday, a food shortage in Russia triggered riots on the streets of the capital Petrograd and kicked off the Russian Revolution, a chain of events that would change the ...
1. A specter is haunting world capitalism: the specter of the Russian Revolution. This year marks the centenary of the world-historical events of 1917, which began with the February Revolution in ...
One senior Russian journalist told me that Skolkovo ... That is why the spark of the industrial revolution didn’t catch in 15th-century China, despite the technical brilliance of its mandarins ...
MOSCOW — Tuesday marks the centennial of the Russian Revolution, one of the most significant political events of the 20th century. Yet President Vladimir Putin's government is barely ...
Mikhail Solovyev's great-uncle Victor Bakhmurin was a student at the Imperial Russian Army Artillery school: "A month after the revolution, Viktor and his fellow students joined a volunteer force ...
On November 2, 1977, closing in on the sixtieth anniversary of the Russian revolution, the French historian Georges Haupt gave a provocative talk at the Fernand Braudel Center in Binghamton ...