A disquieting axis hundred years on from the Russian Revolution

Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump are forming an unlikely axis of global power

Russian President Vladimir Putin (L) and U.S. President Barack Obama shake hands for the cameras before the start of a bilateral meeting at the United Nations headquarters in 2015 Pic: Getty

Comrades across the world will today welcome the commencement of the centenary year of the October Revolution. We can look forward later this year to a big celebration of the fall of the Romanov dynasty among the global Marxist-Leninist legion of the rearguard and their fellow travellers, scattered as they are literally and metaphorically in every land.

It will not matter to them that the 1917 revolution, while dispatching one feudal tyranny, spawned ...