Russia

Ian D. Thatcher defends the record of Josef Stalin’s successor, Nikita Khrushchev, and sees him as a forerunner of Gorbachev.

In 1709 Russia emerged as a major power after a clash of armies in Ukraine. Peter the Great’s victory, Derek Wilson argues, had repercussions that last to this day.

The most influential of 19th-century Russian wits was born on 31 March 1809.

Stella Rock sees a renaissance of religious traditions at what was one of Russia’s most vibrant monasteries before the Soviet purge.

Tsar Nicholas II and his family were murdered on July 17th, 1918.

Nigel Watson recalls a mysterious explosion that occurred in deepest Siberia on 30 June 1908.

The Mongolian past has been drawn by both sides into twentieth-century disputes between Russia and China, writes J.J. Saunders.

International alarm over the terrorist threat is not new. Anthony Read relates how the appearance of Bolshevism created a state of near hysteria throughout the Western world.

John Etty assesses the historical significance of one of the lesser known Tsars.