After the fall of the Russian Empire, the role of the ... for the construction of socialism and communism. In 1922, the red banner became the state flag of the newly formed USSR.

According to the Bolsheviks, the red color of the Communist banner symbolized the ... The symbol was used in the Russian Empire – on shoulder straps of certain ranks of military men.

In January 1917, the Russian empire is still governed ... and prosperity. In Red Flag, the people who were there explain how Communism became an all-consuming, all-explaining ideology that ...

Serhii Plokhy: This is a continuation of a story not just about the disintegration of the Russian Empire, but also the ... he really returned back to the [pre-Communist] Russian imperial ideology ...

This month, the world remembers 100 years since the 1917 Russian revolutions ... a new political system in action - a system known as communism. Communism ended up being a big influence on ...