. Even today, photographers who attempt to take pictures inside the mausoleum on the Red Square where Vladimir Lenin lay…
To the Russians, Vladimir Ulyanov was already a living symbol in 1917. Ulyanov – now better known by his revolutionary…
In 1920, three years after the Bolsheviks seized power, Bernard Shaw, Bertrand Russell and H. G. Wells all made trips…
As I mentioned before somewhere, Lenin didn't wish to have a mausoleum to him, but Stalin ordered it be done.…
(AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko) During the Soviet times, the head of its feared secret police (which underwent so many different name…
On May 5th 1920, during the Bolshevik Revolution, this photograph was taken of Vladimir Lenin atop a platform, speaking to…
When Lenin died in 1924, Stalin ordered the best doctors and scientists in the Soviet Union to preserve Lenin's body.…