Lenin would have said there was no turning point in his life; he would have said that he followed a straight line, undeviatingly, from the dawn of his political consciousness to the moment of his ...

A century on from his death, Lenin still casts a long shadow over Russia, and especially over the man who has spent much of his life trying – and failing – to bury his legacy. Elliott Goat is ...

Vladimir Lenin died over a century ago, on January 21, 1924. Shortly after his death, the Soviet authorities made a decision to embalm the body of the Russian communist revolutionary.