Of all the weapons deployed in World War I, among the most lethal may have been a train that left Zurich on April 9, 1917. Thirty-two of its passengers—a ragbag of revolutionaries and their family ...

November will mark the centenary of the Bolshevik coup in St. Petersburg that saw a small sect of radical communists seize control of an empire covering one-sixth of the earth's surface. What followed ...

Like the United States, the Soviet Union has its greatest generation. Between 1941 and 1945, 30 million men and women served in the Soviet military, facing almost certain defeat at the outset but ...

Like the United States, Russia has its greatest generation. Between 1941 and 1945, 30 million men and women served in the Soviet Union military, facing almost certain defeat at the outset but ...

An established author of several Russian histories, Merridale (Ivan’s War), professor at Queen Mary University of London, turns to what she considers the metaphor for much of that country’s ...

Thirty million men and women served in the Red Army during WWII. Over eight million of them died. Living or dead, they have remained anonymous. This is partly due to the Soviet Union's policy of ...

Why is Christian Science in our name? Our name is about honesty. The Monitor is owned by The Christian Science Church, and we’ve always been transparent about that. The Church publishes the Monitor ...

Lenin on the Train. By Catherine Merridale. Allen Lane; 353 pages; £25. To be published in America by Metropolitan in March. A BRITISH intelligence officer dismissed Vladimir Lenin and his fellow ...

The widely distributed video of a beating incident, which left three Pussy Riot band members hospitalized, has raised questions about the role of the Cossack militia in Russia. At least 10 Cossack ...