Nick Heath on the wave of rebellions and uprisings of rank-and-file Russian workers and peasants across the country in 1919-1921 against the Bolsheviks, who were consolidating their grip on power.

A short account of the attack by the Bolsheviks on the detachment led by the revolutionary Petrenko in May 1918 at Tsaritsyn. "It seemed to Antonov-Ovseenko [commander-in-chief of Soviet troops in ...

My brother Evgeni Yakovlovich used to say that the decisive part in the subjection of the intelligentsia was played not by terror and bribery (though, God knows ...

A century ago, Lenin's communists turned their guns on rebelling sailors once hailed as the "pride and glory" of the Bolshevik Revolution. This picture is one of only a handful in existence of 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 ...

The German Revolution of 1918 has long been overshadowed by its more thunderous elder sibling, the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917. This is a pity, as Robert Gerwarth contends in his new history, ...

Between 1914 and 1917 Lenin and Trotsky foresaw that the imperialist war would set the stage for revolutionary eruptions in Europe. This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February ...

The great British historian Herbert Butterfield cautioned against the temptation to tell a neat story about historical events or discover “an unfolding logic” in them. History, he argued, is ...