The Bolsheviks didn’t seize Russia in one dramatic moment—they exploited years of failure, war, and political collapse. Bloody repression, military disaster in World War I, and food shortages ...

Unlike their opponents the Bolsheviks followed a single leadership and ideology. This part explains how discipline loyalty ...

6. The world war that began in 1914 was a result of the explosion of the contradiction of capitalism between the nation-state system and the world economy. This war, waged for the imperialist ...

Contains the graphic story of a young Michigan soldier's experiences during President Woodrow Wilson's ill-fated 1918 military expedition against the Bolsheviks in the frozen reaches of northern ...

"The White armies' orders & badges in the Civil War, 1917-1922" was originally published in Russian: Paris : Voyennaya Byl, 1961; it is here translated by G.N. Budzilovich and R. Zander. Contents The ...