Ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan is scrapping a holiday marking the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in favour of two national holidays that risk controversy with close ally Russia. As the world prepares to mark the ...

In 1917, Russia experienced not one but two revolutions that would reshape the world. This video explores the fall of Tsar Nicholas II in the February Revolution, and the rise of Lenin and the ...

The Russian Federation finds itself on the threshold of events repeating February 1917, when the Russian Empire ceased to exist. A popular Russian Z-blogger, "angry patriot" Maksim Kalashnikov wrote ...

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued ...