Now the operative part of Stalin’s thesis, the thing that was really new and striking in it, was the assertion of the self-sufficiency of the Russian revolution. . . . The Bolsheviks had by now ...

In the former, Silova says universities “adapted” to the Nazis’ takeover of government, and once Hitler had control he “moved ...

Stalin has trained a generation of Russian intellectuals and party workers ... solution of problems facing the leader of a victorious revolution which had entered the stage of stabilization ...

Less than five years before the start of the Irish Civil War, the fratricidal terror that followed Russia’s October 1917 ...

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...

STEPHEN KOTKIN is a professor of Russian history at Princeton University ... conducted as a part of the documentary program Yanks for Stalin concerning American aid in the industrial development ...

Following the Bolshevik revolution of 1917, Ukraine failed to escape Soviet control. Stalin’s collectivization ... Cambridge University with a First in Russian, German, and French, worked ...

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed by the ... Twenty-five-year-old poet Alexander Briansky remembers the October Revolution and the taking of the Winter Palace: "Everyone ...