The Russian Revolution was an unparalleled disaster, but its artistic tradition remains of enormous interest.

The Bolsheviks took power in October 1917. A century later, because of their own doing, their revolution's centennial comes in November.

What would be Russia, and the EU today, if the 1917 October revolution had not happened, Michael Emerson ventures to imagine.

Within months of the October Revolution, Lenin bemoaned lack of discipline among Russian workers, and both Leninist thought and Bolshevik rule became noticeably more authoritarian.

The seven works below, part of the first exhibition of modern Russian painting to come to Chicago in 17 years, give us a taste of the many movements that gripped pre- and post-revolutionary ...

To mark the centenary of the October Revolution, the BBC has commissioned a selection of programmes across television and radio examining this significant event and its continued impact on society.

It is only a painting - just oil and canvas. But the pockmarked face of Emperor Alexander conveys the drama and the brutality of Russia’s revolution more powerfully than anything I have seen.

Here, however, on the 10th anniversary of the October Revolution, he applies the “ornamental silhouette” technique. The composition seems to be looped.

Chronicling the rapidly changing period between the Russian Revolution’s outset and Joseph Stalin’s brutal crackdown of 1932.