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 ...

Recent vandalism in India targeting statues of Vladimir Lenin—the Communist leader of the Bolshevik revolution—has outraged Marxists in that country, who've taken to the streets. Supporters of ...

It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

This is a tale of two unusual men. One the revered homespun leader of Indian independence and in the eyes of many a latter-day saint. The other my great uncle and namesake, Britain’s youngest ...