"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 ...

V ladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, the architect of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik revolution, politician and political theorist was considered as one of the most significant and ...

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death ... and denounced both the revered Bolshevik leader and his government for their brutal repressions. He accused Lenin of planting a "time bomb" beneath ...

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 ...