Oct 3, 2009

The Kronstadt Uprising of 1921: Sailors of the Baltic Fleet Challenge Bolshevik Policies

By: Michael Streich

Sep 14, 2009

The Cheka in Russia 1917-1922: The Bolshevik's Secret Police Force

By: Fiona Allison

Aug 24, 2009

The Treaty of Brest-Litovsk 1918: Russia Exits the First World War

By: Fiona Allison

Aug 9, 2009

A Comparison of Marx and Lenin: How Lenin Attempted to Make Marxism Work

By: Barry Vale

Aug 5, 2009

Russia and Chechnya in the 20th Century: A Brief History of the Political and Military Conflicts

By: Fiona Allison

Jul 22, 2009

The Identity of the Last Tsar of Russia: Tsar Nicholas II, Tsarevich Alexei, or Grand Duke Michael Romanov

By: Emily Chauviere

Jun 28, 2009

Alexander Radishchev First Russian Radical: A Journey From St Petersburg to Moscow Upsets Catherine the Great

By: Kathleen Duffy

Jun 19, 2009

Ivan the Terrible and Peter the Great Compared: Both Tsars Shared Similarities in State Goals and Personal Foibles

By: Michael Streich

Jun 9, 2009

Peter the Great of Russia Visits England 1698: Czar Learns Shipbuilding Trade and Trashes Stately Home at Deptford

By: Kathleen Duffy

May 17, 2009

Why did Marxism - Leninism Affect Russia? Official Ideology of the Soviet Union

By: Barry Vale

May 8, 2009

The CIA, ISI, and Mujahideen, 1979-1992: The Makeup of Afghan Resistance Groups to Soviet Occupation

By: Paul Andrews

May 8, 2009

CIA Mission, Money, and Rhetoric in Afghanistan: Funding and Support of Covert Operations, 1979-1992

By: Paul Andrews

May 8, 2009

The CIA Covert Mission in Afghanistan, 1979-1992: Three Phases of Cover Operations Against the Soviets

By: Paul Andrews

May 8, 2009

Soviet Influence in Afghanistan During the 1970s: How Soviet Political Influence Ended in Military Invasion

By: Paul Andrews

May 8, 2009

Afghan Politics Falling Apart, 1970s: How the Soviets Were Able to Enter the Scene in Afghanistan

By: Paul Andrews

May 7, 2009

Context of Soviet Invasion of Afghanistan, 1979: Geography and Tribalism Invite Foreign Intrigue

By: Paul Andrews

Apr 25, 2009

War Communism in Russia 1917 - 1921: Necessary Policies to Ensure the Success of the Bolshevik Regime

By: Michael Streich

Apr 22, 2009

The Russo-Turkish War of 1877-1878: Causes and Effects of Russia's Struggle Against Ottoman Turkey

By: Michael Streich

Apr 11, 2009

Why Felix Youssoupov Killed Rasputin: Motives For Murder of Russiian Holy Man

By: Carolyn M Cash

Feb 10, 2009

Emancipation of the Serfs by Alexander II: The Tsar Liberator's Peasant Solution Gave Little Beyond Freedom

By: Michael Streich

Feb 7, 2009

The Crimean War 1853 - 1856: Causes and Effects of a Pointless and Preventable Conflict

By: Michael Streich

Jan 28, 2009

Catherine II and the Enlightenment: The Rule of Catherine the Great and Enlightened Absolutism

By: Michael Streich

Jan 8, 2009

Homeless Beggars: Abandoned Children in Soviet Russia, 1917-1936

By: Deanna Proach

Jan 5, 2009

The Assassination of Tsar Alexander II: Radicalism and Revolution Confront the Russian Autocracy

By: Michael Streich

Dec 29, 2008

Peter the Great and the First Russian Navy: Modernizing Russia Included Military Reforms Modeled on the West

By: Michael Streich

Dec 23, 2008

Peter The Great as a Reformer: His Efforts To Modernise Russia

By: Barry Vale

Dec 17, 2008

Adapting Socialism to Peasant Russia: Communism in an Agricultural Society Defied Marx's Industrial Model

By: Michael Streich

Dec 16, 2008

The Winter Palace in St. Petersburg: Francesco Rastrelli's Masterpiece was the Imperial Romanov Residence

By: Michael Streich

Dec 11, 2008

The Pugachev Revolt in Southern Russia: The Last Great Peasant Uprising Threatened Catherine the Great

By: Michael Streich

Dec 10, 2008

Empress Elizabeth of Russia: The Era of Palace Revolutions in St. Petersburg Ends with Stability

By: Michael Streich

Nov 25, 2008

Peter III and the Palace Revolution of 1762: Catherine Deposes a Highly Unpopular and Mentally Unbalanced Tsar

By: Michael Streich

Nov 24, 2008

Russia's Decembrist Revolt of 1825: Russian Revolutionaries Seek to Replace Autocracy with a Republic

By: Michael Streich

Nov 23, 2008

Felix Yusupov and the Death of Rasputin 1916: The Assassination of a Court Favorite Sees Prophecy Fulfilled

By: Michael Streich

Nov 19, 2008

The Demise of the USSR: Gorbachev's failure to reform the Soviet Union

By: Barry Vale

Nov 6, 2008

The Battle of Kulikovo Pole: Dmitri Donskoi Ends the Myth of Mongol Invincability

By: Michael Streich

Nov 1, 2008

Death of the Romanov Family: Nicholas II as a Figurehead for the Anti-Communist Forces

By: Barry Vale

Oct 12, 2008

The Great Northern War: Swedish Decline And Russian Expansion

By: Barry Vale

Oct 11, 2008

Lenin And The Red Terror: Bolshevik and Communist Violence During The Russian Civil War

By: Barry Vale

Aug 10, 2008

The End of the Romanov Dynasty: The Political Factors Which Led to the Tsar's Assasination

By: Megan Winkler

Aug 1, 2008

The Death of Marshal Tukhachevskii: Stalin’s Purges Cost One of the 1930s’ Best Military Minds

By: John Edward Fahey

Jul 4, 2008

Go To the People Movement: The Narodnik Movement in 19th Century Russia

By: Jonathan Waisnor

May 20, 2008

Stalin's Rise to Power: Joseph Stalin: An Early Portrait

By: Michael LeFlem

Feb 29, 2008

The Original Potemkin Villages: A Russian Minister’s Attempt to Deceive Catherine the Great

By: Isaac M. McPhee

Jun 6, 2007

The Real Gulag: A Glimpse into the Soviet Union’s Prison Camp System

By: Janet Rogers

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