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 government ...

The Russian socialist leader Iulii Martov warned that a revolution that sacrificed democracy would end up destroying its own ideals. Martov lost the political battle after 1917, but the development of ...

If Russia follows the path that it took after 1861, it will miss the greatest chance to leap over all the fatal alternatives of the capitalist regime that history has ever offered to a people. Like ...

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

The 1917 Russian Revolution, at least for a time, abolished the police. Instead of a professional police force alienated from ...