Russia said on Thursday it had accepted the credentials of a new ambassador of Afghanistan, making it the first nation to ...

A hundred years ago, on November 7 (October 25 according to the Russian calendar), 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship.

At the end of 1919, the Bolsheviks were consolidating power in Russia, and spreading their message abroad. By Clayton Black Dr. Black is an associate professor of history at Washington College. On ...

Leader of the Russian Communist Party Gennady Zyuganov visits Red Square to take part in a wreath-laying ceremony at Vladimir Lenin's mausoleum to mark the October Revolution's centenary in Moscow ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

Workers made up about 10% of the population of Russia at the time of the revolution, so it’s really audacious to say that this relatively small working class can take over a whole country. But the ...

After Iran’s Parliament voted to close the Strait of Hormuz, Beijing’s foreign-affairs spokesperson stressed—in what looked ...

These are the best movies about the Russian Revolution, which allow the audience to witness the fall of the last Tsars and the birth of a new nation. 'Nicholas and Alexandra' (1971) Directed by ...

All three underwent multiple revolutions in the 20 th century: Iran in 1906 (parliamentary) and 1979 (Islamist); China in 1911 (republican) and 1949 (Communist); Russia in 1905 (constitutional ...

Investopedia / Bailey Mariner. Lenin spent his adult life agitating for and leading revolutionary communist activities in Russia. This culminated in the 1917 October Revolution, which brought ...

The Communist Manifesto . Modern communist ideology began to develop during the French Revolution and its seminal tract, Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels' "Communist Manifesto," was published in 1848.