By tracing Joseph Stalin’s path to power, this article highlights the warning signs of authoritarianism and the conditions ...

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

David Ranney reviews "Revolution, Defeat, and Theoretical Underdevelopment: Russia, Turkey, Spain, Bolivia" by Loren Goldner for Insurgent Notes issue 18, October 2018.

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No, Sanders isn't Lenin and his "revolution" is a metaphor -- but the ideological shift he represents could be huge ...

For 50 years, a 23-meter, 7.5-ton statue of Vadimir Lenin swept his arm out over Kyrgyzstan’s second city of Osh from a perch above the central square. Then one morning, he disappeared. Residents of ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, long a place of ...

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 ...

Among the many dubious distinctions enjoyed by Soviet ex-Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov is that of having guessed right about Lenin in 1917. It is a point that Molotov, in his 30 years of steely ...

No tyrant of history, neither khan nor caesar nor czar, amassed power so vast or so absolute. Greater than Peter the Great, he extended Russia’s empire over a fourth of the globe and its shadow over ...