In late 1825, a group of reform-minded Russian military officers believed the time was ripe to end the rule of the czars.

♪♪ -The Russian Revolution began in February 1917, when workers in St. Petersburg started rioting about bread shortages. ... He was also on the run from the tsar's secret police.

The radical politics of Russian literature’s most famous English translator, Constance Garnett. By Jennifer Wilson Jennifer Wilson, a contributing essayist at the Book Review, has a Ph.D. in ...

He joined the Russian Bolsheviks, and shortly after the 1917 revolution, Vladimir Lenin put him in charge of creating a secret-police organization. (The czars had one, of course; the Bolsheviks ...

1917 Russian Revolution: The gay community's brief window of freedom. 10 November 2017. ... The secret police had not forgotten his claims that "sodomizers were corrupting the army and navy".

What the Bolshevik Revolution Meant for Russian Jews. Published Nov 06, 2017 at 12:36 PM EST. By David Schizer . Newsweek Is A Trust Project Member. ... establish a new secret police, ...

On the Eve of the Russian Revolution, a Palace Coup Seemed Inevitable, ... into the Third Section [the Czar’s secret police], and even into the Winter Palace.” – Sergei Nechaev, ...

Vladimir Putin's secret police have been hauling young Russians out of cars and forcing them to enlist in the army. Disturbing footage shows security forces conducting mass raids to grab ...

The National Police of Ukraine have warned that the Russian secret services are on the lookout for people on social media to carry out terrorist attacks, but ultimately they don’t pay them and they ...

They shut down Russia’s elected Constituent Assembly, murdered Tsar Nicholas II and his family, set up the Cheka secret police and created the Comintern, a body dedicated to world revolution.