Discover Lenin's role in the Bolshevik Revolution, his leadership's impact on the USSR, and the controversial legacy of his ...

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 ...

On January 21, 1924, Lenin, historic leader of the Bolshevik revolution, died. He was the man who turned the Russia of the Czars into the Soviet empire whose characteristics persist. The abundant ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The Lenin Museum in Tampere, Finland—the only museum outside Russia dedicated to Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin—closed officially on ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenin's embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But ...

Continuing a drive that Russian lawmakers have previously slammed as "de-russification," Kyrgyzstan has taken down two more statues of Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin and removed his name from several ...

The ideology that Lenin championed and spread over a vast territory is something of a sideshow in modern Russia. The Communist Party, although the largest opposition grouping in parliament, holds only ...