The Bolsheviks introduced the so-called “food requisition system,” seizing all grain — including seed grain — from farmers to ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Lenin would have said there was no turning point in his life; he would have said that he followed a straight line, undeviatingly, from the dawn of his political consciousness to the moment of his ...

In 1912, having left the circus, he worked in the Glasgow docks, joined the Clydeside trade union movement and ran guns for Lenin. As a member of the British Communist party, and under constant ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...

Soviet Union founder Lenin is depicted in a huge portrait A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction.