World Politics

The Russian Federation is the largest nation by land mass on the planet. Its predecessors ruled through totalitarianism, but today the country has democratic elections, although the specter of...

As famous for her social and political platform as she was infamous for her sexual appetites, Empress Ekaterina II, better known as Catherine the Great, ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796.

The Russia and Georgia War was fought during August of 2008. The battle began with a Georgian invasion of a breakaway province, South Ossetia.

Both the October Manifesto and the Trans Siberian Railroad were products of the proactive Russian policymaker Sergei Witte. However, they were advanced in a time of conservatism within the Russian...

Ivan the Terrible was the first leader of Russia to be crowned Tsar, as well as the first to claim the title Tsar alongside his traditional title of Grand Duke of Moscow. Ivan was actually known...

The 1917 Bolshevik Revolution was the seizure of power by the radical Marxists led by Vladimir Lenin and was one of the pivotal moments of the 20th Century. The ramifications of the event, and the...

Joseph Stalin is the Russian dictator who took control of the Soviet Union after the death of Vladimir Lenin in 1924. He was the foremost Communist leader of the era, and led the Soviet Union...

In 1991, the world watched with astonishment as the Soviet Union—a nation that had existed since the Russian Revolution of 1917—voluntarily dissolved itself after nearly three-quarters of a...