On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him ...

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 ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin justified backing the separatist regions in conflict with Ukraine Monday in a speech containing claims that former Russian leaders Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin ...

Statues of Lenin and Stalin, removed from Albania’s streets in the dying days of communism three decades ago, have suddenly reappeared in the garden of a government villa. Not everyone is impressed.

On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...

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

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 ...

I have watched with horror the totalitarian pattern of the Jan. 6 committee. As I wrote last month, this is a staged show trial worthy of Vladimir Lenin who developed the technique (later used to ...

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 ...

FEW neurotics are geniuses. But many geniuses are neurotics. Lev Davidovich Bronstein was more than a little of both. This son of a prosperous Jewish farmer was born in the Ukraine in 1879. He died in ...