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 Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Lenin would have formed another party, but too late to win for himself the government of Russia; there would have been no Soviet Union. On the other hand, had Lenin given in to the popular demand ...

Putin has shied away from publicly removing Lenin's body from Red Square despite popular support for such a move, amid "concern about offending those who feel nostalgia for the Soviet era", said ...

The bust itself came from the Soviet Embassy. The monument stood in Holford Square, Islington, looking towards number 30 where Lenin had lived in 1902-3. Lenin and his wife lived in Islington ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953, a sense of hope enveloped the Soviet Union ... communist agenda of the Bolsheviks under Lenin (who led the October Revolution in 1917).