Joseph Stalin

Soviet era poster

91×ÔÅÄÂÛ̳’s Victor Osprey speaks to left-wing Ukrainian Andriy Movchan about Ukraine’s long and complex relationship with Russia, and how this history can help us better understand the nature of the current war. This is part one of a two-part interview.

Despite his great CV, Armando Iannucci’s The Death of Stalin doesn’t quite reach its satirical pretensions.

The 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the first socialist revolution in world history, was marked on October 25 — the date the Bolsheviks led the revolutionary seizure of power by the soviets (elected councils of workers, peasants and soldiers).