The West’s new approach to Russia – bar it from international organizations, restrict international trade, prevent further military moves – looks just like how it treated Russia in the 20th century.
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Who are the Ukrainians and when were they part of the same empire as Russia? A scholar answers basic questions on war in Ukraine.
History isn’t just learning facts. Students learn about the past by researching information and synthesising it to form an evidence-based argument. This skill is useful for a range of careers.
The way foreign correspondents cover Russia tells the story of its relations with the rest of the world.
Revolutions are built not on deep misery but on rising expectations. History may not provide much hope of immediate change in Hong Kong – but protesters may have a longer view.
From the French Revolution to #MeToo, social movements often burst into the mainstream with what seems like little warning. Cass Sunstein explains why.
This was no high watermark of British communism; just a key milestone in the struggle for better working conditions.
The Russian Revolution – an event that affected more than Russia and was more than a revolution.
A century ago, Russian leaders staged mock trials on rape and abortion to educate citizens about new Soviet laws and values. Then, as now, victim-blaming and ‘he said, she said’ marred the verdict.
The physical and political space of cities can be shaped from above or below, but few have had more revolutionary changes, first under the tsars, then the communists, than St Petersburg.
Russian revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya, like other leading women in the new Stalin-led state, was marginalised. But in her case, because she was Lenin’s widow.
When push came to shove, Turkey’s young Communist Party didn’t get the unwavering support from Moscow it might have expected.
Two revolutions, 400 years apart, set in chain processes that claimed millions of lives.
Armando Iannucci plays fast and loose with history in his farce The Death of Stalin. But its depiction of the cult of personality that can develop around political leaders is bitingly relevant.
How a journalist from Nebraska chased the ‘Soviet dream’ all the way to Russia, only to be expelled on accusations of espionage.
Several key figures travelled to Soviet Russia in its early days to witness the socialist state in action.
Stephen Kerensky on why he thinks his grandfather’s legacy has been so maligned.
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It’s been 100 years since revolution swept through Russia and we have dedicated The Anthill 18 to this seminal moment in world history.
Four empires fell, a world was shaken, a new order arose – and the long 20th century really began.
If Rosa Luxemburg and her comrades had been successful with their German revolution in 1919, history would most probably have taken a very different course, avoiding the rise of fascism in Europe.
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Senior researcher, Centre for Social Change, University of Johannesburg
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Hansen Chair in History, The University of Melbourne
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Associate Professor in Modern European History, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Modern (Russian) History, Lancaster University
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Adjunct Professor, School of Global Studies, Social Science and Planning, RMIT University
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Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations, Brunel University London
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Reader in International Journalism, City, University of London
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Senior Lecturer in Social Policy and Criminology, The Open University
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Professor of Political Economy, University of Sydney
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Lecturer in Modern European History, Queen's University Belfast
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Professor of International Relations, Keele University
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Senior Lecturer in International Conflict, University of Kent
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Associate Professor, History and Curriculum Studies, University of Newcastle
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