For hundreds of years, Russia has elevated its political leaders as figureheads. That’s part of what makes its propaganda so convincing.
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Just because deep-rooted Russian fears might not seem reasonable doesn’t mean they aren’t real in Vladimir Putin’s mind.
New school textbooks in China focus less on the Chinese Communist Party and more on its figurehead Xi Jinping. The growing cultivation of a personality cult is reminiscent of the days of Mao Zedong.
Russian revolutionary Nadezhda Krupskaya, like other leading women in the new Stalin-led state, was marginalised. But in her case, because she was Lenin’s widow.
Two revolutions, 400 years apart, set in chain processes that claimed millions of lives.
Several key figures travelled to Soviet Russia in its early days to witness the socialist state in action.
How is Vladimir Putin - for whom uprisings are anathema - treating this year’s centenary of the Russian revolution?
How Stalin and his successors maintained an iron grip on power.
The effects of the Dublin insurrection went much further than Ireland.
That late summer day, the crowds were joyful. They cheered as the flag they had come to loathe was lowered. In its place, the blue and yellow colours of Ukraine rose above parliament. As the demonstrators…
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