Angelo Correr renounces his claim to the Papacy as Pope Gregory XII. 1610: Sigmund III’s Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth army defeats ...

Reed’s is one of six lives served up by historian Simon Hall in his new book. Three of them are revolutionaries — Vladimir ...

Before the revolution of 1917, Iulii Martov was arguably a more prominent figure in Russia’s socialist movement than Vladimir ...

Women played a central role in the 1917 Russian Revolution, and author Cathy Porter is making sure those women are not ...

Including: Sylvia Pankhurst Petrograd poem, Frank Penman in London, Irish strike and lockout, media baron Lord Northcliffe's ...

The July 1924 killing of Robert Imbrie fueled the rise of the Pahlavi dynasty and set the stage for both a CIA-backed 1953 ...

ROBERT CONQUEST’S THREE LAWS OF POLITICS Robert Conquest’s Three Laws of Politics: 1) Generally speaking, everybody is a reactionary on subjects he knows about. 2) Any organization not explicitly ...

I am hopeful that Hesperus Phosphorus! will be further developed and that its setting and characters are revisited in an ...

The first volume, The Sisters (Сёстры), introduces us to Dasha and Katya Bulavina, two sisters from an aristocratic family in Petrograd. As the First World War breaks out, both women confront personal ...

The performance asks that you wear all black on your journey to Petrograd. So, as one waits in the ferry terminal, they can slowly start to see a sea of black-clad theater-goers descending.