On a cold night in Petrograd, just over one hundred years ago, a small group of Red Guards seized the Winter Palace and installed the world’s first communist government. The Bolshevik Revolution marked the beginning of a century in which… Read More
One hundred years ago this month, a train pulled by locomotive No. 293 arrived at the Finland Station in Petrograd (St. Petersburg). Though it was late at night, a large crowd waited waving red flags and flowers. Within a sealed… Read More
On Monday, for the first time in five decades, the flag of Cuba will fly over an embassy in the United States. But the event is marked by a cruel coincidence — the same week, the United States officially commemorates… Read More
On Saturday, 15,000 Russian troops, 200 tanks and trucks, and 150 airplanes and helicopters will parade through Red Square in the largest military spectacle held in Moscow since the collapse of the USSR. Songs will be sung. Speeches will be… Read More
