Ex-Soviet Kyrgyzstan is scrapping a holiday marking the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution in favour of two national holidays that risk controversy with close ally Russia. As the world prepares to mark the ...

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 ...

"Feed the children of the defenders of the motherland," "Top up the soldiers' families' ration, defenders of freedom and the people's peace." These were the slogans shouted at the heart of Russia's ...

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 ...