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

A historian explores eyewitness accounts of the most dramatic political unpheavals of the 20th century ...

Women played a central role in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and author Cathy Porter is making sure those women are not ...

The diversity of Soviet arts was cut short in 1932, when the government banned all artistic associations. Four years later, the country started fighting any manifestation of “formalism”.

Including: Sylvia Pankhurst Petrograd poem, Frank Penman in London, Irish strike and lockout, media baron Lord Northcliffe's ...

Igor Dyatlov was a tinkerer, an inventor, and a devotee of the wilderness. Born in 1936, near Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), he built radios as a kid and loved camping. When the Soviet Union ...

The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for both a CIA-backed 1953 ...

Imbrie never returned to Petrograd, ... In the aftermath of Germany’s 1941 invasion of the Soviet Union, which bordered Iran at the time, the U.K. forced Reza to abdicate, ...