Lenin

Yuri Chekalin18.06.2026

A.R. Dyukov, known on Telegram under the modest nickname “Historian Dyukov,” decided to continue his denunciations of Vladimir Lenin and came up with the following: “I can’t help once again admiring Lenin’s genius. On February 26, 1921, when the country was already in a deep economic disaster and people were supposedly dying of hunger: ‘The […]

Yaroslav Listov22.04.2026

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin’s birthday is a good opportunity to remember what this name means to us, modern residents of Russia. Today, as a matter of principle, I will not discuss the lofty matters of philosophy and political analysis. Lenin was not only a politician, but also a brilliant philosopher, sociologist, economist, historian, and, of course, […]

Yuri Chekalin22.04.2026

The birthday of Vladimir Lenin, observed on April 22, marks an important moment to reflect on one of the most influential—and controversial—figures of the 20th century. Born in 1870 in Simbirsk, Russia, Lenin would go on to become the architect of the Bolshevik Revolution and the founding leader of the Soviet state. His life and […]

Klim Zhukov18.02.2026

Why is Lenin remembered all over the world? We are told that Lenin is a thing of the past, yet they continue to vilify him, spending millions on books and films that attempt to discredit his name and distort his ideas. Is it just because he was a great revolutionary and the founder of the […]

Tony Rocchi20.10.2025

In his own way, Vladimir Lenin had to rebel against his own Bolshevik Party to lead the Bolsheviks to overthrow the Provisional Government in the October Revolution of 1917. Beginning with his April theses almost immediately after his return to Russia from Switzerland, Lenin’s calls to launch a socialist revolution left many Bolsheviks, Mensheviks, and […]

Tony Rocchi04.10.2025

From Multi-Party State to One-Party State: the disintegration and collapse of non-Bolshevik parties and movements in the Russian Revolution. The former Russian Empire was the most multi-party country in Europe. However, by the early 1920s, the Soviet Union, its successor state, had become Europe’s biggest one-party state. The history of how the Bolsheviks or Communists […]

Tony Rocchi02.07.2025

What makes terrorism in the Russian Empire between 1866-1911 somewhat unique in the history of European and world terrorism was the massive sympathy and support terrorists received from many members of educated society. Thousands of law-abiding people in the Russian Empire could always justify left-wing terrorism or support terrorists by providing them with money or […]

Tony Rocchi13.09.2024

Leo Tolstoy, the world’s greatest writer, is often glorified as the apostle of non-violent resistance to evil. Tolstoy has been hailed as a Christian anarchist who inspired the heroism of Mahatma Gandhi and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. As noted in the previous article, Tolstoy exonerated terrorists and revolutionaries in his letter “I Cannot Be Silent” […]

Tony Rocchi29.06.2024

Because political terrorism in the Russian Empire remains the Great Unknown, we will go on having huge difficulties in understanding many tendencies in terrorism in today’s world. While it is true that terrorism happens under specific historical circumstances in different countries and periods during different periods, the fact remains that the history of political terrorism […]

Ilya Ratkovsky28.10.2022

Yuri Chekalin: What attracts you to work as a historian? Ilya Ratkovsky: In the profession of a historian, there are several incentives that help me work and develop. First of all, it is an opportunity to understand the history of your country in the most key moments. The history of the revolution, the Civil War […]

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