In this engrossing tour de force, Edelstein ventures across the ancient and modern eras to trace the evolution of revolution as a political idea.

It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Tony Gilroy's series takes a key plot from a bank heist ...

At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body ...

There were many things that we knew would happen,” said Kamala Harris as the stock market plunged last week in response to ...

The workers’ revolution had begun and with it the transformation of world history, as Dominic Alexander shows The government and the military command were alarmed at the huge rallies in support of the ...

The Germans are subconsciously drawn to Russia, to its predictability and order, and not to the West with its liberal ...

Tomislav Nikolayevich Mescheryakov was born in 1938 in Manchuria, now part of China, his parents having fled the Vladimir ...

To understand what’s wrong with the American left and the Democratic party – two different but entwined things, to be sure – ...

According to Bartholomew this however was not a revolution, but rather a coup. Neither is it true that this coup represented the “will of the people”. The Bolsheviks ... mausoleum where Lenin’s body ...

In the early 20th century, peasant movements combined a hatred of cities with imaginative blueprints for social and economic ...

As a younger man, I found left-wing violence deeply romantic. This wasn’t limited to genuine revolutionary struggle, but also actions which Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin would call adventurist, like ...

THE LETTERS OF LENIN—Translated & edited by Elizabeth Hill & Doris Mudie— Harcourt, Brace ($4). Of the thousands of letters written by Vladimir ... of the majority (Bolsheviks) in the ...