Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Robert Service talks about Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky and their views of communism and totalitarism. Robert Service talks about ...

A new book offers a fresh timely look at Leon Trotsky, perpetrator and victim of Soviet communism. Stephen Kotkin, a Stalin ...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

Any visitor casting their eyes over the vivid paintings inside a church in Sujuna, western Georgia, may get a surprise. Among various generic sinners engulfed in the flames of hell is a clear ...

MOSCOW, Jan. 23, 1924 (UP) - As a vivid world figure passes into history with the death of Nickolai Lenin, the all-Russian Soviet Congress prepares to carry on the work to which the leader gave his ...

On November 1, 1961, Lenin’s tomb disgorged Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin’s embalmed remains. After his death in March 1953, Stalin’s body was displayed next to that of Bolshevik founder Vladimir Ilych ...

MOSCOW -- Busts of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin have been unveiled in downtown Moscow. In all, seven busts of Soviet leaders, also including ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin justified backing the separatist regions in conflict with Ukraine Monday in a speech containing claims that former Russian leaders Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin ...