Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

The concluding days of Moscow’s 22nd Party Congress were surrounded by a strange air of magic and the supernatural. The long list of speakers ritually cursing Stalin’s memory was joined by frail, ...

Any visitor casting their eyes over the vivid paintings inside a church in Sujuna, western Georgia, may get a surprise. Among various generic sinners engulfed in the flames of hell is a clear ...

After Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, Moscow's Red Square became the site of a series of block-shaped structures made to house the embalmed corpse of the Soviet founder. 1 Lenin’s mausoleum ...

Vladimir Putin's sweeping election victory in Russia is a step toward reinstating the cult of personality of old Russian leaders like Lenin and Stalin. Russia's President Vladimir Putin is hailing ...

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 ...