In April 1917, amidst the chaos of WWI and political upheaval in Russia, Vladimir Lenin embarked on a journey that would change the course of history. His top-secret train trip home from exile in ...

In April 1917, a sealed train crossed wartime Europe from Switzerland to Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg). Inside was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a revolutionary exile whose ideas were marginal, whose ...

The founder of the Soviet Union died in 1924, but his embalmed body remains on display in a country that doesn’t know how to let go of its past. Last Sunday, upon waking up, I reached for my phone and ...

On Sunday, January 21, the Young Guard of Bolshevik Leninists, a Trotskyist youth organization in the former Soviet Union, held an event to commemorate the centenary since the death of Lenin at the ...

If Marx did not leave behind him a “Logic” (with a capital letter), he did leave the logic of Capital . . . Intelligent idealism is closer to intelligent materialism than stupid materialism.