Although some Russian Orthodox priests have spoken out against “war liturgies,” they don’t all hold the same positions. Some ...

They are Nikolai Bukharin, one time "heir apparent to Lenin" and president of the Communist Internationale, and Henry Grigorievich Yagoda, for years the most dreaded man in the Soviet Union as ...

Came the news that War Lord Trotzky, who is convalescing at Tiflis in Georgia (extreme southwest Russia), only recently received the news of Nikolai Lenin’s death (TiME, Jan. 28). Said he ...

Lenin was far more interested in putting down internal opposition than in fighting Germans. He had, after all, been infiltrated back into Russia by the German government in the hope of hampering the ...

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It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton ...

Another Russian revolutionary, Vladmir Lenin, explained that the First World War was an imperialist war. A “predatory war of plunder on the part of both sides, it was a war for the division of ...

In the old-fashioned opinions of Karl Marx and Nikolai Lenin no dictatorship could count on getting enough votes if the ballot were secret. This fallacy Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini have ...

In a theatre in Moscow, draped in mourning for Lenin, the Congress of Soviets of the Union of Soviet Socialistic Republics met to elect a successor to Nikolai Lenin, late Chief Executive.

At Moscow who remains? Paramount is Nikolai Lenin, lying embalmed at the Kremlin, a lifelike, strangely magnetic effigy of himself, an idol wondrously potent among groping, uncertain Russians.