It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top ...

What was the lesson of this catastrophe? Stalin’s political opponents — notably the Trotskyites — laid it to his willful departure from Lenin’s principles and charged him with having ...

A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet leader culminated on this day in 1928 when Stalin exiled Trotsky to Siberia ...

In the midst of this, there was the Russian Revolution of 1905 – and Stalin met Lenin for the first time. From there, Stalin tussled with the law, lambasted the ruling powers, and was ultimately ...

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet conferred on Tovarish Stalin the Order of Lenin and gave him the title of “Hero of Socialist Labor.” Shop committees, laborers’ clubs, Soviets ...

By 1945, Stalin had already established himself as a brutal tyrant capable of inflicting terrible suffering on the Soviet people. Within five years of Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin had managed to ...

The following interview was conducted as a part of the documentary program Yanks for Stalin concerning American ... role in the 1920s-30s? Why did Lenin like him so well? Why was he the single ...

Last night, the Supreme Soviet announced it had awarded Stalin Russia’s first decoration — the Order of Lenin. Radio and newspapers have been singing Stalin’s praises. Russian mountaineers ...