The year 1917 is most closely associated with the Russian Revolution, but it is more important to locate that revolution in the global tidal wave of working-class struggle from 1917 to 1921 (continued ...

BUDAPEST, Hungary — Prime Minister Viktor Orbán compared Hungary’s membership in the European Union to more than four decades of Soviet occupation of his country during a speech on Monday ...

Journalist Julia Ioffe didn’t think the long line of women doctors and scientists in her family was unusual. In Soviet Russia, educated, accomplished women were the norm. But also normal were the ...

Short essay by famous Russian anarchist, Gregori Maximov, on the defeat of the 1917 revolution by counter-revolution from within. Submitted by Ed on September 14, 2007 Taken from the Bulletin of the ...

Mikhail Gorbachev was a contradictory figure; his legacy, complex. Hailed in the West as a democrat and liberator of his people – which he genuinely was – he increasingly became despised by many ...

The Russian socialist leader Iulii Martov warned that a revolution that sacrificed democracy would end up destroying its own ideals. Martov lost the political battle after 1917, but the development of ...

Right-wing Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán on Monday compared the nation's European Union membership to over four decades of occupation by the Soviet Union's communist regime. "Today, things pop ...