Lenin would have said there was no turning point in his life; he would have said that he followed a straight line, undeviatingly, from the dawn of his political consciousness to the moment of his ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Going there today will leave a whole new library of images in your mind: arriving on the country’s flag carrier, Vietnam ...

Andy Warhol’s choice to immortalize Vladimir Lenin might initially seem like an outlier. Known for his obsession with ...

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death on Sunday is expected to be met with silence from the current occupant of the Kremlin. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

Two weeks after 14-year-old Zoya Cherkassky-Nnadi and her family left Kyiv for a new life in Israel, the U.S.S.R collapsed. Recently, the artist drew on memories of her Soviet childhood in a ...

The mayor of a town outside Yekaterinburg finds himself apologizing for a holiday makeover that dressed outdoor monuments of ...

The extremely conditional form in which Lenin invoked the right to self-determination was spelled out in his 1913 work on the subject. The fact that he did not endow this right with some eternal ...