A figure of unrelenting discipline and vision, Lenin engineered the Bolshevik Revolution, reshaping global power structures and planting the seeds of the Soviet Union. To the East, he was a ...

Lenin defended Stalin and warned against a ... In 1934, the residue of restlessness among the Bolsheviks came to a head with the assassination of Sergei Kirov, Leningrad Party boss, and one ...

Following the Bolshevik Revolution, Russia is engulfed in a gigantic civil war. Lenin and the Reds hope to forge a new Soviet empire. His enemies, the Whites, look to their new leader Admiral ...

As well as the life-size portrait of Lenin, there is a scene of 'Bolsheviks Storming the Winter Palace' in 1917 and a painting of Soviet troops having 'A rest after battle' during World War Two.

Many have recently recalled how, in 1988, Khomeini, accepted UN Security Council Resolution 598, a decision he linked to "drinking poison,” ending Iran’s war with Iraq. At the time, despite the ...

He was never a Bolshevik in the political sense, belonged to the left wing of the old Social Democracy, and has always adamantly refused to be a "Leninist." After Lenin’s death, he is the most popular ...

In 1903, Lenin became the leader of the ‘Bolshevik’ faction of the Russian Social Democratic Worker’s Party following the split within the social revolutionaries.