The state funeral of Queen Victoria of Great Britain was held on 1901. A little over a decade later, the plush Grand Central ...

World War II Looms... In 1937 a drastic purge crippled the Red Army, reducing its morale and efficiency just before the world war. In June, Marshall Tukhachevsky, first deputy commissar of war ...

The solemn commemoration came amid a worldwide spike in antisemitism and new surveys suggesting basic knowledge of the ...

Russia was not invited to the 80th anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland, although it ...

Lenin negotiated peace with Germany and therefore an end to Russia's role in World ... War in the Bolshevik government in March 1918. A brilliant organiser and improviser, Trotsky created the Red ...

MOSCOW: Russian President Vladimir Putin on Monday (Jan 27) praised Soviet soldiers for ending the "total evil" ...