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Black-and-white portrait of a Vladimir Lenin.

20th Century

Why does Putin blame this infamous Russian revolutionary for Ukraine’s independence?

A mixed group of men and women in early‑20th‑century clothing gather around a table set with dishes, with a bearded man seated at the centre of the group.

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Did Rasputin really bring down the Tsars? The truth behind the dark legend of the Russian mystic. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Czar Nicholas II with family. (Getty Images)

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Books interview with Robert Service: "Nicholas II brought the Russian Revolution upon his own head". This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Black-and-white photograph of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin delivering a speech standing at a podium equipped with multiple microphones

20th Century

Why did Stalin commit a robbery? The bloody heist that made the dictator’s name

Painting of Rurik and his brothers in helmets and chain mail, holding weapons beside a wooden longship with a carved animal-head prow.

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Why does Putin think Ukraine should be Russian? It’s all to do with the Vikings

Hammer and sickle on a red flag

20th Century

Why did the Soviet Union adopt the hammer and sickle, and how did it become a symbol of communist revolution?

Digital photo collage depicting a cluster of wild bolete mushrooms, with a black-and-white portrait of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin superimposed onto the stem of the central, largest mushroom

20th Century

Why did Lenin turn into a mushroom? Inside the bizarre prank that fooled Soviet Russia

Japanese soldiers and sailors disembark at Vladivostok, 22 August 1918. Of all the foreign interventions into the Russian civil war, the one from Japan was by far the largest, growing to 70,000 troops. (Photo by Culture Club/Getty Images)

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Britain’s Russian fiasco: Allied intervention in the Russian civil war. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Crowds gather around Soviet cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin during his visit to Manchester in July 1961, months after his historic spaceflight.

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This Russian hero was a global superstar – but fame came at a heavy cost

Minutemen facing British soldiers on Lexington Common, Massachusetts

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Fire and freedom: how the American Revolution inflamed passions in Britain. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

shows ballet dancers on stage, with a male dancer supporting a ballerina in a white tutu as she extends one leg; in her dress, the Kremlin can be seen

20th Century

In times of crisis, the Soviet Union turned to something unexpected to calm the masses

General Andrew Jackson (on horseback) led US forces to victory over the British at the battle of New Orleans on 8 January 1815 (Photo by Pierce Archive LLC/Buyenlarge via Getty Images)

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Regency Britain: An age of war and revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Allies in retreat from Austerlitz

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Austerlitz: how Napoleon crushed the Austro-Russian army

A woman dressed in a ruffled dress and spotted robe holds a young child in a white, lacy dress and cap

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Maria of Modena: The queen who started a revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

20th Century

Josef Stalin: the paranoid dictator who forged the Soviet Union into a superpower

A black‑and‑white photograph of a man in a suit and glasses standing above a dense crowd outdoors, raising one arm as people look up toward him. Stone columns and a metal fence frame the background, giving the scene a formal, public setting.

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Want to understand Iran today? A historian tells you what you need to know. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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French Revolution

Lenin's body lying in state in 1924

20th Century

The death of Lenin, a century on: the long afterlife of Russia’s pre-emiment revolutionary

Striking workers carry banners through the streets of Petrograd (St Petersburg) at the start of the February Revolution that brought the fall of the Russian monarchy the next month. (Getty Images)

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Russia’s revolutions: How 1917 shaped a century. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Christopher Clark at St Catharine's College, Cambridge (Photo by Damien McFadden)

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Christopher Clark“The 1848 revolutions were a dissonant orchestra of ambitions and intentions”. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

The execution of Louis XVI in the Place de la Revolution

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What is a revolution?. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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The radio revolution: how Britain found its frequency. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A bald man in a dark suit and tie sits at a dinner table, looking slightly to his right. Behind him, another person stands holding a bottle with a visible label, as if serving or presenting it. The setting appears to be a formal meal or official gathering.

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This secret speech gave people heart attacks: when Khrushchev denounced Stalin. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

A three‑panel collage showing the same person in snowy winter settings: on the left, pushing a red stroller past an old wooden house; in the centre, a close‑up portrait in a brown jacket with snow falling; and on the right, sitting on an outdoor bench in a blue coat with a fur‑lined hood against a backdrop of leafless trees.

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I taught history in Putin's Russia – and here's why I knew I had to leave. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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French Revolution podcast episodes

A late 19th-century image shows a group of ‘pit lasses’, employed to work at the surface of coal mines. An earlier law had explicitly banned women from working below ground. (Photo by The Print Collector/Print Collector/Getty Images)

Industrial revolution

From family to factory: women's lives during the Industrial Revolution

A cartoon-style rubber date stamp with a red top and a yellow crown sits on a stack of three yellow books labeled 1, 2, and 3. The stamp’s rotating number bands are visible, and the books are arranged like steps against a plain background.

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What was the most important year in history? We asked 9 experts – and this is what they said. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

Ewan Macgregor in 'A Gentleman in Moscow' and the Hotel Metropol in Moscow

20th Century

The incredible real history of A Gentleman in Moscow’s Hotel Metropol

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What working-class autobiographies can tell us about the Industrial Revolution. This is a premium piece of content available to subscribed users.

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