Politics makes strange bedfellows . This well-known phrase that is usually attributed by system to Winston Churchill could also be applied to war; after all, Clausewitz said that war is the continuation of politics by other means and, indeed, there are historical cases that are quite strange. One of
Bolsheviks and Mensheviks these are the two currents into which the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party has split. The words “Bolshevik” and “Menshevik” come from Russian and mean, respectively, majority and minority. Division between Bolsheviks and Mensheviks The rupture of the Russian Social D
The armies of Tsar Nicholas II have suffered heavy losses since he took over their command in 1915. Workers demonstrations in Petrograd (February 23-28, 1917), supported by rebellious soldiers, led to the abdication of Tsar Nicolas II on March 2. There followed cooperation between the soviets and th
Isandlwana was one of the hardest blows to the forces of 19th century imperialism; the events that took place there reminded the colonial powers not to underestimate the capacities of the indigenous opposition. Initially intimidated by the firepower of the British, the Zulu warriors crushed the Engl