On this day in history, March 8, 1917, the first phase of the Russian Revolution began in present-day Saint Petersburg. The March Revolution (sometimes called the February Revolution because of the ...

A detailed look at the Russian Revolution of 1917, exploring the February Revolution, the fall of the Tsar, and the pillars of Russian society that shaped it.

It’s always interesting to delve a little bit in the democratic history of a country. In autocratic Russia, it was very short ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin made a speech Saturday condemning the mutiny by the Wagner group, comparing the uprising to the events sparked by Russia’s 1917 revolution. Putin claimed that the ...

Dictators are sensitive about the biographies written about them. Joseph Stalin, the Soviet Union’s ruler from the late 1920s until his death in 1953, was no exception. After commissioning an official ...