"We old men may not live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré in Switzerland ...

The village is located about six miles from the border with Ukraine. Earlier, the evacuation of residents in the Bolshevik ...

Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy paid tribute to the Heroes of Kruty, young men who held off a Bolshevik attack on Kyiv more than 100 years ago. "A feat that each of us should remember ...

The Bolshevik tendency emerged out of the struggle led politically by Lenin (and, in the sphere of philosophy, by Plekhanov) against revisionist and opportunist tendencies within the Russian ...

Given the choice between the Bolsheviks and the Whites, it was hardly surprising that Bolshevik support increased dramatically. The impact of foreign countries on the Civil War was minimal for a ...

Trotsky became Commissar for War in the Bolshevik government in March 1918. A brilliant organiser and improviser, Trotsky created the Red Army out of the Red Guards and from the remnants of the ...