Event: Bolshevik Revolution

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business

Russian Revolution had radical global ramifications

The Bolsheviks’ efforts to change the world remain relevant in our own time of popular disaffection with establishment politics and brutalist economics, says Geoffrey Roberts

business

Republicans must renounce Trump to save US democracy

Luther and the Bolsheviks - Power can’t avert its day of reckoning

general

Doctor Zhivago book is put to rights

news

Homage to Omar Sharif as star dies aged 83

Crucify them! No, society rightly too civilised to slaughter scapegoats

Historic auction items on show at Slane Castle

A decorative collection of arts and furnishings from Irish country houses have transformed Slane Castle into a set from a period drama.

Sun, 09 Oct, 2011

Lenin statue damaged by bomb blast

A bomb today blew a large hole in one of Russia’s best-known statues of Vladimir Lenin.

Wed, 01 Apr, 2009

Oscar winning actress Maureen Stapleton dies

Maureen Stapleton, the Oscar-winning character acress whose subtle vulnerability and down-to-earth toughness earned her dramatic and comedic roles on stage, screen, and television, died Monday. She was 80.

Mon, 13 Mar, 2006

Russian Orthodox Church 'favours burying Lenin'

A top Russian Orthodox official today said the country’s dominant church believed the body of Bolshevik Revolution leader Vladimir Lenin should be removed from display in a Red Square mausoleum and buried.

Tue, 15 Nov, 2005

City to get Lenin square

A new square in the Baltic city of Kaliningrad will be named after Vladimir Lenin, complete with a restored statue of Russia’s Bolshevik Revolution leader.

Tue, 01 Nov, 2005

Russian city to get Lenin square

A new square in the Russian city of Kaliningrad will be named after Vladimir Lenin, complete with a restored statue of the Bolshevik Revolution leader, the ITAR-Tass news agency reported today.

Mon, 31 Oct, 2005

'Tired of living' woman celebrates 116th birthday

A woman believed to be the oldest in the world celebrated her 116th birthday today in the former Soviet republic of Belarus.

Wed, 05 May, 2004

Russia: Theatre death toll 128, say prosectutors

Russian prosecutors have said 128 people died during the Moscow hostage crisis, eight more than previously revealed, Russian news agencies reported today.

Thu, 07 Nov, 2002