From the start of the war in Ukraine, it was clear that China would not condemn the Russian invasion. On February 25, Beijing abstained in a vote on a draft UN Security Council resolution condemning the attack. China also refrained from condemning the war by 141 countries at the UNRead More →
The great demographic events of the past have shaped our history and made us who we are. The explosion in the number of these islands fueled the settlement of the British and Irish from San Francisco to Tasmania. The great demographic booms of the United States and Russia – laterRead More →
The shock of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine continues to reverberate around the world, including in unexpected places. At the UN General Assembly’s emergency special session this week, Algeria was among 35 nations to abstain in response to a resolution condemning Russia’s ‘aggression against Ukraine’ and demanding that Russia immediately withdrawRead More →
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine saw the return of full-scale war to Europe for the first time in nearly 80 years. While many Westerners worry about the escalation of the conflict towards a confrontation between two nuclear powers, Lloyd Gruber asks the key questions – and offers unexpected answers. War hasRead More →
Just over a week after it began, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine looks like the tale of two wars. For Russian President Vladimir Putin, the past week has hardly been reassuring. Between the poor performance of the Russian military on the ground and the existential shock of Western sanctions on theRead More →
The Russian invasion of Ukraine this morning puts an end to several months of doubt and debate on the objective of Moscow’s military reinforcement on the border of the two countries. Washington’s repeated warnings of an impending military operation turned out not to be the hysteria that Russian President VladimirRead More →
The mask wars will continue to make a lot of news in Illinois this week. More on that in a moment. But it’s the other war, the potentially damaging conflict in Ukraine, that is showing increasing signs of affecting people’s daily lives here. According to U.S. Representative Mike Quigley, D-Chicago,Read More →
Kyiv: German Chancellor Olaf Scholz landed in Kyiv on Monday for crisis talks ahead of a dramatic visit to Moscow to avert what Berlin sees as the “very critical” threat of a Russian invasion. Upon his arrival in Ukraine, the German leader went directly to President Volodomyr Zelensky, whose governmentRead More →
Although the response of Western capitals to Russia’s aggressive military posture on its border with Ukraine has been framed in clear diplomatic terms, military contingency planning has gone up a notch in recent weeks. The intent of these measures, at least judging by the rhetoric of US and NATO leadersRead More →
For several months, much of the attention of American and European foreign and security policy has been focused on the Russian-Ukrainian border, where more than 100,000 Russian troops remain massed and equipped for a possible invasion. Much of the internal debate in the West during this period has focused onRead More →
Contents When was the Russian Revolution? Russian Revolution of 1905 Nicholas II Rasputin and the Tsarina February Revolution bolshevik revolution Russian Civil War Impact of the Russian Revolution Sources PHOTO GALLERIES The Russian Revolution of 1917 was one of the most explosive political events of the 20th century. The violentRead More →
If any of these events had thwarted Lenin, our times would be radically different. Without Lenin, there would have been no Hitler. Hitler owes much of his rise to the support of conservative elites who fear a Bolshevik revolution on German soil and who believe only he can defeat Marxism.Read More →
“The main operations began at 2 a.m.,” wrote Leon Trotsky in his History of the Russian Revolution. “Bolshevik groups occupied the railway stations, the lighting station, the military and food warehouses, the water systems, the Palace bridge, the telephone exchange, the state bank, the main printing works, the telegraph andRead More →
One hundred years ago, on November 7 (October 25 according to the Russian calendar), 1917, Vladimir Lenin’s Bolsheviks overthrew the Russian government and established a communist dictatorship. The world has never been the same since. Of all the legacies left in the wake of the revolution, the worst is aRead More →
Share this Item You are free to share this article under the Attribution 4.0 International License. One hundred years ago, the Russian Revolution overthrew the Russian Empire, ending nearly two centuries of monarchical rule. You may remember from history class that the upheaval came in two parts: the February RevolutionRead More →
August 14, 2017 August 14, 2017 A century ago this year, Russia was undergoing its Marxist revolution, an attempt to create a fairer nation that instead led to one of the most brutal tyrannies of all time. So what happened? This is a debate that is once again becoming importantRead More →