For this drama was played once before. Then, Lenin was god and Stalin the mythmaker; now Stalin is the omnipresent myth and the new chief priest has not yet been ordained. In 1922, Lenin ...

A Russian communists supporter stands holding a portrait of Soviet founder Vladimir Lenin, top, and Soviet Leader Josef ...

It may be set a long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, but Tony Gilroy's series takes a key plot from a bank heist ...

At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body ...

Stalin was then buried with full honours beside Lenin. Russia’s former allies from the Second World War sent condolences, with France declaring three days of official mourning. Pope Pius XII was ...

Vladimir Lenin meets Joseph Stalin. Turning to crime to pay their way, the revolutionaries struggle to stay ahead of the ...

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 ...

He did use violence, though. His Brown Shirt thugs intimidated many a German into voting for Hitler. However, even then, it was the Great Depression that ultimately put Hitler in power.