The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik ...

One of the most enduring mysteries of the 20th century has been put to rest: DNA analysis of bone fragments has proven that two of Czar Nicholas' children believed to have escaped were killed with ...

Despite having to report to the guards every day at 11am, they lived in some luxury in a hotel, with a Rolls Royce at their disposal, much to the chagrin of local Bolsheviks. It was local 'workers ...

In February the Russian monarchy collapsed. In October, squeezing out the moderate forces, the Bolsheviks seized power, leading to a bloody civil war. Subsequently, the Soviet government steered ...

For had the Cossacks been able to push their advance through to Moscow, and thus exterminated the Bolsheviks, the state of the world would be unrecognizably different today. Aten, in the midst of ...

He did use violence, though. His Brown Shirt thugs intimidated many a German into voting for Hitler. However, even then, it was the Great Depression that ultimately put Hitler in power.

When the Bolsheviks took power in 1917, they declared war on the bourgeoisie of Russia. But how could they create a more equal society when knowledge was concentrated among the elite? Tomila Lankina’s ...

Led by Lenin and Trotsky, the Bolsheviks had lately taken over Russia, and were still barely afloat in a sea of hostility, their enemies at home known as Whites. So it was a time, if ever there ...

The Romanov family, the last Russian monarchy, was executed in 1918 by Bolsheviks in the basement of a home in Yekaterinburg, about 900 miles (1,448 kilometers) east of Moscow. Several of their ...