When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...

Kyiv,” at the Ukrainian Museum, the revolutionary artist—a star of the avant-garde while the Soviet Union still permitted one ...

In 1917, when Russia was on the verge of revolution, 100,000 women marched down the streets of the Russian capital Petrograd, ...

A few hours later they were released. By then, Russia’s socialist revolution had taken place. Over previous days, the Petrograd Soviet of Workers’ and Soldiers’ Deputies had secured control of most of ...

By all accounts, Pavlichenko was a loyal Soviet citizen from start to finish ... Her parents were Mikhail Belov—a locksmith from Petrograd as well as a loyal Communist party member and former ...

The world celebrates International Women’s Day each year on March 8. But did you know that the celebration has a strong Russian link dating back to 1917?

On March 8, 1965, the United States landed its first combat troops in South Vietnam as 3,500 Marines arrived to defend the ...

The Provisional Government, led by Alexander Kerensky, was created by the Duma (Russia’s parliament) and was forced to share ...

Once a radical movement for labor rights and gender equality, International Women’s Day has been repackaged into a corporate ...

International Working Women’s Day was never meant to be a celebration of women’s achievements within capitalism—it was a call to revolution. Its origins lie in the struggles of communist and socialist ...