China Mieville, author of October: The Story of the Russian Revolution, reminds us that in 1917, "Russia was rocked and wracked by not one but two insurrections, two confused, liberatory upheavals ...

On the morning of Dec. 26, 1825, a group of Russian military officers supported by 3,000 soldiers gathered in Senate Square in the heart of St. Petersburg. They had assembled to force the ...

In fact, as China Mieville writes in his new book October, there wasn't just one Russian revolution, but two. The first, in February 1917, abolished the Tsarist monarchy.

A Russian journalist has embarked on a huge social media project, which aims to relive the months and days in the run up to the country’s bloody revolution of 1917.