Paul Kellogg is a professor of interdisciplinary studies at Athabasca University in Alberta, Canada. He is the author of ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

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The Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, the public face of Iran's 1979 Islamic Revolution, won over many supporters in the West ...

In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.

It appears that Realism's victory over Avant-Garde had been predetermined: Vladimir Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, had said that arts had to be kept simple and that content was more ...

The quiet removal of the monument has sparked anger among part of the population and in Russia.

A statue of Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin was unveiled in the Taganskaya metro station in Moscow in May, recreating a mural that was dismantled decad ...

Vladimir Lenin’s Return Journey to Russia Changed the World Forever On the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, our writer set out from Zurich to relive this epic travel ...

A Nasty Little War: The West’s Fight to Reverse the Russian Revolution by Anna Reid John Murray £25/Basic Books $32, 400 pages Tony Barber is the FT’s Europe comment editor ...