"We old men may not live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré in Switzerland ...

At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body ...

A few days later Putin denounced Lenin and the Bolsheviks for ... Deputy Mayor Vladimir Putin. Now, on the eve of the centenary of the October Revolution that propelled Lenin to power, Putin ...

Andy Warhol’s choice to immortalize Vladimir Lenin might initially ... A figure of unrelenting discipline and vision, Lenin ...

THE LETTERS OF LENIN—Translated & edited by Elizabeth Hill & Doris Mudie— Harcourt, Brace ($4). Of the thousands of letters written by Vladimir ... of the majority (Bolsheviks) in the ...