President Barack Obama is accusing Republicans of portraying health care overhaul legislation as a "Bolshevik plot." Obama told House Republicans that major elements of the bills were based on proposals from former lawmakers in the political middle, including one plan from Republicans Bob Dole and Howard Baker as well ...

From C.D.C. Armstrong Sir: Simon Hoggart in his review of the Channel 4 documentary Three Kings at War (Arts, 16/23 December) writes that George V reneged on a promise to provide political asylum to Nicholas II, 'fearing the Romanovs would foment Bolshevism here'. What the documentary did not make clear was that the original proposal to invite ...

THE LAST MAZURKA : A TALE OF WAR, P ASSION AND LOSS by Andrew Tarnowski Aurum,

This is indeed a story of war, passion and loss. But those looking for a bittersweet tale of romantic Polish aristocrats stoically facing their doom at the hands of the Nazis and Soviets will get a great deal more than they bargained for. This is ...

Russia's Supreme Court on Wednesday formally rehabilitated the country's last tsar, Nicholas II, declaring that he and his family were unlawfully killed by Soviet authorities. The ruling negates the Romanov's culpability in crimes the Bolsheviks used to justify the 1917 revolution and the slaying of the tsar and his royal family the following year. "The presidium declared ...