(JTA) — Of all the many loaded issues tied to the bloody history of Jews in the former Soviet Union, none is as sensitive today in that part of the world as their role in the 1917 revolution ...

Some of the most prominent Russian dissidents and their supporters gathered over the weekend in Berlin. The opposition has a ...

Revolution in Russia would have to be made by the urban ... His recurrent joy when Martov, the Monshevik leader whom he loved, returned to the straight and narrow path of Leninism (only to stray ...

The 1917 upheaval, including the October Revolution, saw the toppling of ... future of the people of our planet," one letter read. Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin speaking in 1917 In the western ...

Learn about the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, the Bolsheviks, communism, the notorious Rasputin, rumors of cannibalism and acute poverty during the ...

But the conspiracy backfired, hastening the coming Russian Revolution Carolyn Harris; Updated by Sonja Anderson The Soviet leader, who died on August 30 at age 91, attempted to enact "revolution ...