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 ...

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 ...

On 18 September 1964, during a no-confidence motion against his government, India’s former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri strongly reaffirmed the principles of democracy.

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 ...

"Lenin and the whole Bolshevik Party lived off that money until the [1917] revolution." Sebag Montefiore says that the young Stalin and the troubled Andor bear striking similarities: "A young man ...

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 ...

By the time of his death in 1924, Lenin had created a one-party State and an elaborate system of control. Under Joseph Stalin, the pace of change accelerated as he sought to convert the country ...

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.