events and effects The dire social conditions of the Russian people, rural and urban, and unpopularity of the Tsar's regime forced him to abdicate his throne in February 1917. The replacement by a ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, is remembered as the instigator of the October Revolution of 1917 and, therefore, as one of the men who changed the shape of the world at that time ...

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 ...

David Monteleone’s self-portrait as Lenin in Trelleborg, Sweden, where the Russian revolutionary arrived by ferry from Germany. Davide Monteleone The town of Haparanda, 700 miles north of ...

It must also be pointed out that books on the USSR founder are a tad too many. Consider some of the titles—Lenin in Soviet Poetry, Lenin’s Geneva Addresses, The Central Lenin Museum ...

There was no turning point because in the moment of supreme crisis Lenin, under overwhelming pressures, continued his straight line and yet was not broken. The Russian people had wanted revolution.

To understand what’s wrong with the American left and the Democratic party – two different but entwined things, to be sure – ...

TASS/. Russian Orthodox Church speaks in favor of burying Vladimir Lenin's body, which lies in still in a mausoleum on Red Square in a glass coffin since Lenin's death in January 1924, but the ...

In later years, Trotsky commented that Lenin’s work was distinguished by the highest level of theoretical conscientiousness. This found particular expression in Lenin’s defense of Marxism ...

TASS/. A group of Russian lawmakers has submitted a bill to the lower house of parliament demanding to remove the remains of Bolshevik revolution leader Vladimir Lenin from Moscow’s Red Square ...

Bust of Vladimir Lenin, Leader of the 1917 Russian Communist Revolution This bust was the centrepiece of a monument erected in 1942 by Finsbury Council in London. It was designed by the Russian ...