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

I got really into fiddling with the party makeup of the Petrograd Soviet and someone went and convened a government without me. It's great fun if you're the same kind of nerd I am, ...

He has, over his career, demonstrated a fascination with communism and the Soviet Union, the bloody curdling of a utopian dream, in books such as “Mother Russia” (1978), “The Revolutionist ...

The majority of the leaders of the Petrograd Soviet had no intention of taking power. Instead, they wanted the Duma leaders to form a government in line with the doctrine laid down by Karl Marx: ...

It was unanimously resolved to re-name Petrograd Leningrad, ... On the death of the first leader of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin, on January 21 1924, ...

When Leon Trotsky's Petrograd Soviet officially voted to back a military uprising on Oct. 23, 1917, the capture of the Winter Palace became all too possible.

Yet, as Sasha Senderovich observes in How The Soviet Jew Was Made (Harvard University Press), ... published a short story in a Petrograd daily in 1918 about Hershele Ostropoler, ...

‘How the Soviet Jew Was Made’: A tale of wandering, oppression, language and lore In his award-winning book, Prof. Sasha Senderovich mixes a rich, centuries-old body of Yiddish folklore with ...

The Bolsheviks blamed Russian Jewish sympathy for Zionism and the Balfour Declaration for the decline in their own socio-political and economic system ...

An excerpt, drawn from Jennifer Homans’s book “Mr. B: George Balanchine’s 20th Century,” about New York City Ballet’s tour of the Soviet Union in 1962, which was fraught because of ...

Most of Petrograd fell into the hands of the Bolsheviki without a struggle. Trotzky, amid bursts of applause, proclaimed to the assembled Soviet Congress that ‘the Provisional Government has ...