With “Bankers and Bolsheviks: International Finance and the Russian Revolution,” Hassan Malik has written a fascinating study of an overlooked topic—but not a book for emerging markets ...

Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin believed the only way to fight religion was to spread a materialist view of faith. ... Red commanders even forbade soldiers from wearing crosses around their necks.

INTERNATIONALIST PERSPECTIVE TEXTS 41. THE BOLSHEVIKS, THE CIVIL WAR, AND "RED FASCISM" The opening of the state archives in the wake of the disintegration of the Stalinist regime has provided us with ...

How many people were killed during the Red Terror? The figures differ greatly. Historian Sergei Volkov asserts that in 1917-1922 the Bolsheviks killed up to two million people .

By 1918, the revolution had morphed into a civil war between Lenin's "Red" Bolsheviks and a collection of forces known as the "Whites." The violence in Russia was just beginning.

In 1918, the Bolshevik regime launched a state-sanctioned campaign of mass killings and detentions to silence political enemies—laying the foundation for decades of violence in the U.S.S.R.

AUGUST 30-SEPTEMBER 5, 1918: LENIN IS SHOT; BOLSHEVIKS UNLEASH RED TERROR. Following the Bolshevik coup in November 1917 and Lenin’s agreement to the punitive Treaty of Brest-Litovsk in March ...

Though the Bolshevik troops were much more numerous, Makhno and his detachments constantly kept out of their reach. But the Bolsheviks managed to establish themselves solidly in several places, and to ...

Despite the Red Terror’s explicit identification of the Bolsheviks’ political rivals — the Socialist Revolutionaries — as primary targets, their commitment to class conflict and ...

The Bolsheviks took power in revolutionary Russia in October 1917 and built the Soviet Union. The Tea Party grew out of the Republican Party. But no sooner did it emerge as a real force did it ...

Around 5,000 American soldiers were part of an allied expedition to intervene in the ongoing Russian civil war against the "Red" Bolshevik forces.