There is not doubt that failure to reform was a factor in both the downfall of Russia's Provisional Government (PG) in 1917 and China's Guomindang (GMD) in 1949; but was it critical? One of the reason...
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Moscow (dpa) - Thousands of communists took to the streets in
Russia and individual former Soviet republics on Wednesday to
commemorate the 90th anniversary of the Great Soc...
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Moscow (dpa) - Her name in translation means "barker," but in the
end Laika, the first living creature in space, must have gone out
whimpering.
When Soviet sp...
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MOSCOW, Nov 4 (Reuters) - On a holiday created to unite his
country, Russian President Vladimir Putin issued a veiled
warning that foreigners were seeking to split up the vast
country and plunder ...
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Berlin (dpa) - Controversial singer-songwriter Wolf Biermann, once
described by a critic as the "troubadour of German disunity," says he
intends returning to live in Berlin ...
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Moscow (dpa) - Former Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin is back in
fashion in Russia as the Kremlin condones history textbooks that
honour the Soviet leader (1878-1953) as renov...
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Moscow (dpa) - The shock in the West was deep when the bleeping
from Sputnik 1 was able to be picked up from space by simple radios
worldwide 50 years ago.
Th...
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The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th century, has a single, striking image: a couple embracing at a train station. It’s not the summa...
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The poster for Reds, Warren Beatty’s 1981 epic about American radicals in the early 20th century, has a single, striking image: a couple embracing at a train station. It’s not the summa...
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Revolutions in Russia and China
Communists march on 90th anniversary of October Revolution
