Russia was a part of the Soviet Union. The communist government owned the country's diverse economic assets, controlled the labor force and allocated all resources. It was a command economic system.

Russia has repeatedly painted modern Ukraine as a Nazi state, in a crass distortion of history. Putin had already seized Ukraine's Crimean peninsula eight years earlier, after a revolution that ousted ...

In the latest of our series on great revolutions, Dominic Alexander looks at how the Russian socialists had to confront the ...

Armenia was a part of the Russian empire that came under communist control when the Bolsheviks prevailed in the Russian ...

Vladimir Lenin changed the course of history like very few ever have. He turned Russia upside down and created the first ...

Wildcat's 1989 introduction to Herman Gorter's "Open Letter to Comrade Lenin".

The question whether marriage as an institution should be abolished is now being debated all over Russia with a violence ... the turbulent early days of the Revolution. Last October a bill ...

Four years of the First World War followed. The unprecedented bloodbath led to the Russian Revolution, and the establishment ...

When Lenin's Bolsheviks — the Russian Communist party that had long been plotting revolution — suddenly took over, its enemies were legion. Leon Trotsky set about training a Red army to defend ...

Their leaders were experienced military commanders They controlled huge areas of Russia They had the ... establishment and survival of the revolution and a communist Russia. Many feared that ...