The tsar, certain that the Petrograd garrison would suppress the revolt, ignored his requests. It would prove to be a fatal mistake. - Until January 1918 Russia lived according to the Julian ...

After the 1917 Bolshevik revolution that swept the tsar from power and pulled Russia ... Following the revolution WW1 was largely forgotten, and dismissed by the Soviets as an “imperialist ...

In both World Wars, people assume the Allied Powers had a crushing advantage and would have inevitably won the conflicts.

When the riots broke out, Nicholas instructed the city commandant to take firm measures and sent troops to restore order. It ...

In 1811, Tsar Alexander I, supposedly allied with Napoleon, refused to be part of the continental blockade of British goods any longer. Napoleon’s edict barring trade with Great Britain was ...

Napoleon’s army was torn and bloody; the Tsar’s army was in ruins. Alexander puzzled over what to do next. SOKHOLOV: When Alexander the First was thinking about what to do after the battle of ...

While the United States and the Soviet Union rushed to outdo each other in the nightmarish weapons department, one weapon may take the cake: the Soviet RDS-220 or AN602, better known as the Tsar ...

Sergei Witte was an influential policy maker. He persuaded the Tsar to pass his October Manifesto. Issued in 1905, it promised significant political reform, although most of these promises were ...