It's unlikely Lenin would have done that if the two men had major disagreements on ideology and policy. Did Stalin engage in any new forms of repression? Yes, as a matter of fact, he did ...

It was just a ubiquitous part of everyday life. Question: Lenin was essentially a follower of the political philosophy of Karl Marx. At what point did he become elevated to where people talk about ...

I found myself becoming particularly fascinated by the time Lenin spent in the library in 1908. That year on May 22 he signed the library admissions book and spent three solid weeks devouring a range ...

Many streets and localities that bore his name have been rechristened. The ideology that Lenin championed and spread over a vast territory is something of a sideshow in modern Russia. The ...

Lenin's influence is still vivid elsewhere today, most notably in China — a party-state system in which the Communist party embodies the vanguard of his ideology. Lenin's anti-imperialist ...

“It got me to look at your views and recall the philosophy I studied – the Marx-Lenin philosophy. Well, it's been some time. It turns out we have not created anything better than tha ...

After Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, Moscow's Red Square became the site of a series of block-shaped structures made to house the embalmed corpse of the Soviet founder. 1 Lenin’s mausoleum ...