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Political Revolutions
A comparison of wealth gaps in ancient empires reveals stark differences and lasting consequences.
An influential series of books argues that the history of the world is the history of generations. Is it right?
The Persian Constitutional Revolution made unlikely allies and enemies of missionaries, ayatollahs, the shah, and his Russian ambassadors. Its legacy shaped modern-day Iran.
The global extent of the Revolutionary War surprises many Americans today — but it was crucial to independence.
Before Rome was an empire, it was a republic. And before it was a republic, it was a kingdom ruled by seven mythical kings — some better than others.
Soviet censorship was thorough yet fallible.
Piano Sonata No. 23 offers a window into the way culture became an instrument of Soviet state policy.
In 1934, American Communists translated a Stalinist book about revolution into a children’s game. Curiously, it didn't catch on.
Created in the 1880s, "Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan," which depicts a father murdering his son, divides Russians to this day.
Climate activists' brand of iconoclasm is far removed from the Beeldenstorm that swept medieval Europe.
What began as public outcry against Iran’s so-called morality police has snowballed into a mass movement targeting the very essence of the Islamic republic.
By toppling medieval Europe’s mightiest political power, the Protestant Reformation ushered in a new age of freedom, religious and otherwise.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
One hundred years ago, a Ukrainian flag flew over Vladivostok and other parts of the “Russian” Far East.
Despite losing most of his extended family to the guillotine, Tocqueville grew up to become a fervent supporter of democratic revolution.
The decades-long conflict is best understood not through secondhand accounts of historians, but the primary accounts of people who actually experienced it.
Although equal parts Hollywood blockbuster and Putinist propaganda, "Trotsky" still manages to capture the good, the bad, and the ugly of Russia’s revolutionary past.