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Revolutionary Movements
In revolutionary Russia, a group of forward-thinking philosophers offered an alternative to both futurism and communism.
The latest season of the "Revolutions" podcast blends history with science fiction to tell the story of the Red Planet's rise.
The global extent of the Revolutionary War surprises many Americans today — but it was crucial to independence.
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.
In the early 20th century, a young biochemist named Alexander Oparin set out to connect “the world of the living” to “the world of the dead.”
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.
Privateers pillaged British merchant ships in the name of liberty — and profit.
One particular revolution was so important, that at least one historian thinks the 20th century officially began in 1914 and ended in 1991.
For a long time, important events could only be visualized retroactively through paintings. Photography allowed us to capture history as — or sometimes even before — it happened.
Despite losing most of his extended family to the guillotine, Tocqueville grew up to become a fervent supporter of democratic revolution.
The insurmountable contrasts between their visions help explain Russia’s stunted development and hint at its destructive future.
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.