Russian History
Russia photos: From woodsmen and tramps to soldiers of the Revolution, remarkable photos of a changing nation
Pictures taken by Maxim Dmitriev - one of the founders of the photojournalism genre Among images: White army general, marketplaces and 'Old Believers' Many show scenes in cities along the Volga river By Nick Enoch
6 June 2012 Last updated at 19:23 ET By Lucy Ash Radio 4's Crossing Continents
Joseph Stalin's deadly railway to nowhere
20 November 2012 Last updated at 00:16 GMT By Steve Rosenberg BBC News, Moscow One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, Alexander Solzhenitsyn's classic novel, was published 50 years ago this month.
Solzhenitsyn's One Day: The book that shook the USSR
By Daily Mail Reporter PUBLISHED: 19:41 GMT, 4 August 2012 | UPDATED: 13:28 GMT, 5 August 2012
Photographs of Russians peasants in 1800s
Incredible Photos of Russian Peasants in the 1800s | Environmental Graffiti
Russian peasants were a completely separate class from the land owners and nobility, many of whom must have considered their underlings less than human. Most peasants were actually serfs – individuals owned by or legally tied to their masters – before The Peasant Reform of 1861.Nicholas II Coronation Photographs
Extremely rare photo album with 16 original photographs of Coronation procession , taken on May 14th 1896 in Moscow.
eHistory at OSU | The Russian Revolution through the Prism of Propaganda
Why study the Russian Revolution?