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 ...
Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: "Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live." A century ...
LENIN: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. By Victor Sebestyen. Pantheon. 592 pages. $35. "Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror" is one ...