IF all the political figures during the last century, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, casts the largest and most lingering historical shadow. Without the revolution he set into motion, ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet ...

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 ...

To signal the storming of the Russian imperial palace, the revolutionary guards were supposed to raise a red lantern over the fortress they had occupied in Petrograd, the city now known as St.

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 ...

A full century since seizing the reigns of the Russian state from the grip of a weak cabinet and an ousted royal dynasty, Vladimir Lenin can still draw a crowd in Russia's capital, Moscow. But the ...

In this 1952 article from the “On the Thread of Time” series, on the eve of a split in the… Karl Marx: a biography - David McLellan (3rd edition) Part of the series of biographies of Karl Marx. David ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Not long after the 1924 death of the founder ...