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 ...

After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his most trusted follower, was disposed of by Stalin, who eventually forced him into ...

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 ...

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 ...

Communist Party supporters laid flowers at Stalin’s grave in Moscow this month, marking the anniversary of his birth. Credit...Nanna Heitmann for The New York Times Supported by By The New York Times ...

Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after the collapse ...

LONDON — Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The ...

RIDDER, Kazakhstan -- Two years ago, officials in Ridder, a city in northeastern Kazakhstan, decided to erect a monument in honor of Filipp Ridder, the 18th- and 19th-century mining engineer for whom ...