"False flag" operations have long been a staple in Russian strategy, tracing back to the Tsarist Secret Police and Bolshevik provocateurs' days. In the more recent past, Soviet leaders like Leonid ...

After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution that swept the tsar from power and pulled Russia out of the war, the bonds became worthless. A poster advertising a “Book For A Soldier” committee ...

They ran the country as autocrats. This meant that the Tsar, and only the Tsar, governed Russia: Tsars believed that they had a divine right to rule Russia, their position and power had been given ...

Dominic Alexander continues his series on revolutionary change in history by looking at the founding of Russian socialism ...