In the latest of our series on great revolutions, Dominic Alexander looks at how the Russian socialists had to confront the ...

Moreover, it is highly probable that one of the first fruits of their newly-acquired right of locomotion will be to revive in the peasants those nomadic instincts of the Slavic race, to check ...

"OH thou great All-Russian Sphinx, it is not easy to be thy Oedipus." Thus Ivan Turgeniev apostrophized the Russian peasant. And a sphinx the peasant has been, even since the educated classes of the ...

These four years represent a period of what may be called agrarian revolution from the top, because no one with any realistic knowledge of the Russian village can believe that the majority of the ...

Illustrations of the devastating sieges of Russian cities by the Golden Horde. Left, Siege of Kiev, and right, Siege of Kozelsk. Photo: Wikimedia Commons Literacy rates were high in medieval ...

he wore Bavarian peasant clothes and affected peasant manners; he spent as much time as possible in his mountain retreat in Todtnauberg; and he was becoming increasingly nationalistic and political in ...

Let’s be honest, daily life for a medieval serf in England, and many other European countries wasn’t much fun. The feudal system meant that peasants ... the mending of clothes were also ...