Their notion of training was to march the men up and down in parades and reviews: these were nice to look at and gave them the impression of military….

On the news that the Tsar had sent the troops icons to boost their morals, General Dragomirov quipped: 'The Japanese are beating us with machine-guns….

It was ironic but somehow fitting that the 1905 Revolution should have been started by an organisation dreamed up by the tsarist regime itself. No-on….

The link between literacy and revolutions is a well-known historical phenomenon. The three great revolutions of modern European history -- the Englis….

We, the workers and inhabitants of St Petersburg, of various estates, our wives, our children, and our aged, helpless parents, come to THEE, O SIRE t….

Time and time again, the obstinate refusal of the tsarist regime to concede reforms turned what should have been a political problem into a revolutio….