"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 ...

What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...

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 ...

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 ...

The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events ...

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

It was at this crucial juncture that Germany sent the exiled revolutionary Vladimir ... opposition to Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Lenin speaking in central Moscow. By 1918, the revolution had ...

The radical Left are the Bolsheviks in the Democratic Party, not the Mensheviks. To explain the history, Vladimir Lenin’s Marxist movement in Russia, in the early 20 th century, split into ...

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 ...

Then, in October, Vladimir Lenin's Bolsheviks storm the Winter Palace ... year-old poet Alexander Briansky remembers the October Revolution and the taking of the Winter Palace: "Everyone rushed ...

Bust of Vladimir Lenin, Leader of the 1917 Russian Communist Revolution This bust was the centrepiece of a monument erected in 1942 by Finsbury Council in London. It was designed by the Russian ...

Lenin's Mausoleum is located in Red Square and is probably one of the stranger tourist attractions you'll ever come across. It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site that ...