His poems were enjoyed by all Soviet children. Marshak's poetry for children is a world of goodness, fun, fairy tales, ...

Within such an organisation, a Politburo (a shortened form of “political bureau”) referred to a smaller group of top ...

In 1919, Lenin formed the Communist International, COMINTERN. Its stated purpose was to promote Communist revolutions worldwide. Its actual function was to allow the Soviet Union, when caught meddling ...

The urge to police the past is hardly an invention of the Trump Administration. It is the reflexive obsession of autocrats ...

Dominic Alexander’s series continues looking at the twists and turns of the revolutionary process in the fight for a workers’ ...

The first Victory Parade in Moscow featured more than 1,800 units of military hardware. In the morning of 24 June 1945, ...

Europe’s bellicosity against Russia, stronger in Centrist liberal-bourgeois political circles as well as the Far Right, ...

AN traveled to the Central Asian capital city of Tashkent, Uzbekistan, to see the important preservation projects underway ...

I moved to St. Petersburg and lived there for ten years. Although my antennas were always up for signals of a socialist ...

In the latest in Dominic Alexander’s series on great revolutions, he looks at how Russia went from bloody imperialist war to ...

As Moldova tries to align itself with the European Union, the region of Gagauzia continues to lean pro-Russian. Now, there ...

London sent the Hawker Hurricanes to the Soviet Union to help them fight against Nazi Germany. Residents share memories of their city, before its destruction in Russia's full-scale invasion.