Lenin

Lenin and Stalin

. Even today, photographers who attempt to take pictures inside the mausoleum on the Red Square where Vladimir Lenin lay…

1 year ago

Lenin in Stockholm

To the Russians, Vladimir Ulyanov was already a living symbol in 1917. Ulyanov – now better known by his revolutionary…

14 years ago

The Autumn of the Patriarch

In 1920, three years after the Bolsheviks seized power, Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell and H. G. Wells all made trips…

14 years ago

The View From Lenin’s Tomb

As I mentioned before somewhere, Lenin didn't wish to have a mausoleum to him, but Stalin ordered it be done.…

15 years ago

The Fall of Iron Felix

(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) During the Soviet times, the head of its feared secret police (which underwent so many different name…

15 years ago

Lenin Speaks to the Troops

On May 5th 1920, during the Bolshevik Revolution, this photograph was taken of Vladimir Lenin atop a platform, speaking to…

15 years ago

Lenin and Stalin

When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin ordered the best doctors and scientists in the Soviet Union to preserve Lenin's body.…

15 years ago