bolshevism

So, Felix Dzerzhinsky, famous as the founder of the KGB, was not initially planning on staying in Russia. After he was freed from prison in the aftermath of the February Revolution, he went to Moscow with the plan of organizing some fellow Poles and to go help the revolution then going on in...

Ioseb Jughashvili is widely considered to have been one of the most important religious leaders of the 20th century. But his life could very easily have taken a different path. While many have speculated how things might have changed had he decided to focus on becoming a poet, I'm going to take...

Earlier today, after having finished Victor Sebestyen’s biography of Lenin, I was curious as to why Lenin died at a relatively young age compared to others like Stalin (74); I stumbled across some articles and a paper from 2012 that concludes with some certainty that Ulyanov died from a rare...

How plausible would it be for the Socialist Revolutionaries to successfully win the Russian Revolution, while the Bolsheviks, while beaten, are not decisively destroyed amd entrench themselves on Ukraine or Belarus or another important but not quite central piece of the former Russian Empire?