What is my point?
Russian peasant soldiers, and not Petrograd’s workers influenced an outcome of the February Revolution of 1917.
Specifically:
Whenever I hear official versions of the events that led to the February Revolution of 1917, they tend to say how the proletarian forces joined by peasant soldiers took down Russian monarchy. While an overall process might [...]

I tried to start writing this post couple of times and every time I ended up looking at the blinking cursor and unable to collect my thoughts. Sometimes pictures can tell the story better than words and this is why we simply put here WWII military photos made by German soldiers in Belarus during the [...]

PRAGUE, August 18, 2006 (RFE/RL) –Fifteen years after the failed coup that triggered the collapse of the Soviet Union and transformed his own life, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev talks to RFE/RL’s North Caucasus Service about the events of August 1991 and their legacy.
RFE/RL: In his annual address to the Federal Assembly in 2005, Russian [...]

Quiet honestly, I like “What If…” discussions. A week ago, I was talking with friend of mine about an impact of Allied Forces on the outcome of the WWII. Inevitably for such topic, we came to “What if” scenarios with one major question: What if the United States did not enter the WWII?
I can’t [...]

I won’t be really wrong if I say that it takes a lot to make a history class a truly remembered one. In most cases, it depends on a subject, professor and his teaching style. In my case, I had one very good professor at NYU who taught “Contemporary World” class. The professor never had [...]

In a previous post, we attempted to show how many various interpretations exist regarding national stock of Belarusians. Anuszka mentioned in her comment:
“So, who was Mickiewicz?? Polish, Lithuanian, or Belarussian?”. Because he was born in Belarus, wrote poems in Polish, and his most famous poem begins with: “Lithuania, my homeland!”.
And indeed, so much confusion [...]

Researching Belarusian history I was amazed at how many contradictory issues surround this country’s past. And while we can strongly assert that each single nation went through historical, political, cultural transformations Belarus stands out among them.
Among most burning was (still is) an issue whether Belarusian were more of a Polish, Russian or Baltic stock. It [...]

It all started in a pretty much calm and neutral manner: “Officials of the United Nations are seeking revision of their year-old arrangement to take over 912 apartments in two housing developments now built by the Metropolitan and the New York Life Insurance companies… And Byron Price, Assistant Secretary General, in charge of housing for [...]

More than 50 years ago, a Soviet Party leader, Nikita Khruchev, publicly critiqued Stalin. Many of those who attended the conference remembered “death-like” silence that covered the conference hall. It was February 25, 1956.
That day, delegates of the XX Party Session were unexpectedly called up for a closed meeting. When Khruchev went on a podium [...]

On September 20, 1946, the doors leading to the President’s oval-shaped office still were closed when 10:30 arrived. Five minutes more passed …10…15…Finally, the doors opened, and the reporters surged in.
Mr. Truman was at his desk, attired in a blue suit, red tie and a red handkerchief peeping from his breast pocket. He showed no [...]