If Russia follows the path that it took after 1861, it will miss the greatest chance to leap over all the fatal alternatives of the capitalist regime that history has ever offered to a people. Like ...

In February 1905 a peaceful procession of over 100-thousand unarmed civilians made their way towards his Winter Palace. True ...

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 ...

This is the first volume of his memoirs which covers the two Russian revolutions of 1917 and the beginnings of the Civil War from the point of view of a peasant activist in a Ukrainian village. This ...

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At the start of the twentieth century, imperial Russia projected size and strength to the outside world. Internally, however, the foundations of Tsar Nicholas II’s rule were already under strain.