The new 700km-long Moscow-Kazan rail line will be the only network in Russia that can handle train speeds in excess of ...

The Russian people had wanted revolution. It had to come. What they meant by revolution was the overthrow of an inept and suffocating tyranny and its substitution by some more liberal system.

Russian socialists and their relationship to the war played a key role in setting the stage for revolution in Russia. Lenin, the leader of the radical Bolsheviks, was an outlaw and actually lived in ...

On 1 October the Australian Institute of International Affairs NSW hosted H.E. Mr Vasyl Myroshnychenko, the Ukrainian ...

To mark the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, time capsules that were buried 50 years ago across the country are being unearthed. The 1917 upheaval, including the October Revolution ...

After the revolution, the heavily made-up "silent ... Olga Khoroshilova was speaking to BBC Russian's Anna Kosinskaya.

This perspective was vindicated with the outbreak of the February Revolution, which arose out of the war and its extreme exacerbation of the crisis of Russian society. After the February ...

When the Russian Revolution erupted in 1917, the family fled and the tiara was left behind. But, after the assassination of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in 1918, the tiara was smuggled out of ...

It was the beginning of an artistic revolution, not just in Russia, but the whole world. In 1906, Diaghilev held a Russian art exhibition during the annual Salon d'Automne in Paris, with works by ...

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 ...

Red flag-draped rallies in Moscow marked the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution on Tuesday. But despite the demonstrations, the crimes of the past and faded memories have made some ...

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 ...