Zorya was born in 1923 to Galina Serebryakova and Leonid Serebryakov, an Old Bolshevik worker who had joined the party at the age of 14 in 1905. The year of her birth was a fateful one in the ...

In 2016, President Vladimir Putin proudly participated in the 75th anniversary of the beginning of World War II commemorations, poignantly holding a picture of his father during the "immortal ...

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known as Lenin. Lenin ranks among the most remarkable figures in world history. He was the theoretical and political ...

My brother Evgeni Yakovlovich used to say that the decisive part in the subjection of the intelligentsia was played not by terror and bribery (though, God knows ...

MOSCOW (AP) — They played key roles in Russia's 1917 Bolshevik Revolution, which triggered a civil war that killed millions, devastated the country and redrew its borders. A century later, their ...

After World War I, Ukraine briefly emerged as an independent state, but it was born into total chaos. The collapse of the Russian Empire, the Bolshevik Revolution, foreign invasions, internal ...

British spies and the Bolshevik Revolution: “Forensic evidence concluding that the fatal wound came from a British-made revolver may not have been enough evidence to convict Oswald Rayner for Rasputin ...

When Nick Campbell first approached Stephen Norris, director of the Havighurst Center for Russian and Post-Soviet Studies, about mentoring him through the Undergraduate Summer Scholars (USS) program ...