Libcom's guide to further reading around the subject of the Russian revolution and counter-revolution of 1917 to 1921. Submitted by Steven. on October 22, 2008 The Russian Revolution and Civil War, ...

The Russia of the Tsars was one of history's most terrible dictatorships. Yet it was the setting for a revolution in which millions of people made history. In a matter of one week, the actions of ...

The Russian Revolution was perhaps the most important event in the history of revolutionary socialism and the struggle against capitalism. For the first time in October of 1917 workers took power on a ...

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 ...

MOSCOW (AP) — The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was long before the digital revolution allowed anyone to instantly document events. But the clumsy cameras of the time still caught some images that capture ...

The February Revolution marked the beginning of a dramatic shift in Russian history. This video explains how protests, unrest ...

In large part, Soviet Russia is a monument to Karl Marx. It was Marx’s Communist Manifesto, written with Frederick Engels in 1848, that became the blueprint for the Russian Revolution of 1917, and ...

More than a century after the Russian Revolution, Vladimir Lenin’s decision to organise the Soviet state around national ...

Royal jewels smuggled out of Russia during the 1917 revolution, alongside rare colored diamonds, are heading up for auction next week in Geneva, Switzerland, Reuters reported. A ring with an ...