The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the landmark events of the 20th century. Yet when compared to some of the century’s equally momentous developments­ such as the outbreaks of World Wars ...

Saul David picks the best of the many new books published to coincide with the centenary of the Russian Revolution The Standard's journalism is supported by our readers. When you purchase through ...

THE RUSSIAN REVOLUTION: ... Basic Books, $30, 445 pages. In the spring of 1917, the German spy service sensed a sure-fire means of persuading Russia to make a separate peace and exit the Great War.

A young woman lives through the Russian Revolution in Janet Fitch's epic new novel 'The Revolution of Marina M.' A 3.5 star book review.

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir Lenin or Leon Trotsky. While Lenin and Trotsky saw October 1917 as a ...

British sci-fi and fantasy author China Miéville sifts through the extraordinary disagreements, debates, and debacles that accompanied the Russian reds on every step of the road to revolution.

Fascinated though I am by the Russian Revolution, I am equally fascinated by Miéville’s oeuvre, and this book shows how certain concerns have been threaded through his novels.

A New Childhood: Picture Books from Soviet Russia, until September 11, 2016, at the House of Illustration gallery, London. The Russian Revolution of 1917 was the defining event of the 20th century ...

This is the first part of a three-part review of a historical study by Ulrich Herbeck on the history of anti-Semitism in Russia from the Tsarist empire until the end of the Civil War in 1922.

Exiled Russian businessman Mikhail Khodorkovsky, once the country’s wealthiest man, published a book last year titled How to Slay a Dragon: Building a New Russia After Putin.