Among the most influential political and social forces of the twentieth century, modern communism rests firmly on philosophical, political, and economic underpinnings developed by Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, later known as Lenin. For anyone who seeks to understand the twentieth cen…
Describes the attempts and military efforts employed by Vladimir Lenin to spread communism into western Europe, with a focus on the 1920 Battle of Warsaw, in which Mikhail Tukhachevsky lead Russian forces against Józef Piłsudski and the Polish army.
Traces the life of the Soviet leader, uses the secret Soviet archives to reveal new information, and argues that Lenin set in motion many of the worst excesses of the state later expanded by Stalin.
For historians and scholars alike, the 20th century is widely recognized as the bloodiest one-hundred-year period in human history. Despite previous human rights conventions before the 20th century, the African country of Namibia fell victim to systematic violence from 1904-1908…
The Soviet Union was the first state in world history to introduce affirmative action programs for its national minority population. The Soviet state established tens of thousands of national territories in order to provide homelands for about one hundred different Soviet nation…