Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7.

In the heart of Helsinki, a statue of a Russian Tsar overlooks the city, symbolizing Finland’s long and complex history with ...

I AM not a Bolshevik. Moreover, I am an enemy of the Bolsheviks, having fought them with a rifle in my hands as well as in the field of ideas. Nor am I a monarchist. I do not favor a restoration of ...

Vladimir Putin has been turned into an ancient tsarist emperor and army marshal in a tribute portrait. A hagiographic image of the Putin, in a highly ornate military dress uniform with elaborate ...

A public commission in Kyrgyzstan has concluded that Tsarist Russia's mass crackdown on an uprising by Kyrgyz in 1916 was genocide. The commission's head, Azimbek Beknazarov, told reporters that his ...

In the endless campaign for ideological purification which goes on in the Soviet Union, the "historical front" is accorded high priority. No academic discipline has received such constant attention ...

PanARMENIAN.Net - Armenian Foreign Minister Ararat Mirzoyan has responded to Azerbaijani President Ilham Aliyev’s recent ...

EAST BRUNSWICK – Before Holocaust Remembrance Day on April 11, the East Brunswick Public Library will present the fifth and final annual installment in the series “The Jews of Eastern Europe Before ...

Traditionally this cake is considered one of Russia's hardest to prepare. But this recipe allows you to bake fit for an emperor! Fillings could be laid out not only vertically, but also diagonally, ...

DUSHANBE -- A court in Dushanbe has fined a Russian woman after finding her guilty of an attempt to smuggle a tsarist-era copper coin out of Tajikistan. The Shohmansur district court in the Tajik ...

Almost 90 years after it was killed off - along with the Romanov dynasty and the country's last tsar - savvy Moscow tourist chiefs have revived one of imperial Russia's most impressive military ...