Niall Mulholland

North Korea Nuclear Stand-Off: Dangerous Escalation of Washington and Pyongyang Conflict

The North Korean bomb test on September 3, the most powerful yet, and the bellicose reaction of the U.S., underlines the volatile and dangerous...

1917: Chaos and Exhilaration

Caught in the Revolution: Petrograd 1917 By Helen Rappaport Published by Hutchinson, 2016, £25 Reviewed by Niall Mulholland Helen Rappaport’s Caught in the Revolution provides many telling eyewitness...

Book Review: ‘Lenin on the Train’

Lively prologue to events which changed the world When the February revolution broke out in Russia in 1917 and the Tsar was overthrown, Vladimir Lenin was living...

January 1917: On the Eve of Revolution

Republished from 1917revolution.org as part of a series of articles that analyse and explain, month by month, the stormy events of the revolutionary year of...

When Khrushchev Denounced Stalin

Sixty years ago Nikita Khrushchev stunned Communist Party members around the world with a speech attacking Stalin, the then recently deceased dictator deified as...