Under the leadership of Nikita Khrushchev, the U.S.S.R. attempted reforms in the mid-1950s that would steer away from the ...

A timeline of Stalin's life, the man that oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and who was the supreme ruler of ...

Lenin dies in 1924, and the Soviet leadership enters a ruthless power struggle. His warning against Stalin is ignored as rivals maneuver for control of the new USSR. What follows is the rise of Stalin ...

One hundred years ago, on December 23, 1922, Lenin began writing one of the most politically significant documents in the history of the Soviet Union. It consisted of a series of notes that were to be ...

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known as Lenin. Lenin ranks among the most remarkable figures in world history. He was the theoretical and political ...

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 ...

A call to remove the names of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin from the flags of Marxism and put them on trial. After the fall of the Leninist program, events proved that the Leninist program did not lead to ...