Not long after the 1924 death of the founder of the Soviet Union, a popular poet soothed and thrilled the grieving country with these words: “Lenin lived, Lenin lives, Lenin will live.” A century ...

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death on Sunday is expected to be met with silence from the current occupant of the Kremlin. But Putin's views on Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and founding father of ...

Germany’s decision to facilitate Lenin’s return to Russia was one of the most consequential acts of political interference in ...

MOSCOW – His party's power is long gone, his ideas mostly discredited — but Vladimir Lenin's visage remains a fixture in much of the former Soviet Union. The thousands of statues of him spread across ...

A city in southeastern Finland on Tuesday removed the country's last publicly displayed statue of Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Lenin following pressure from residents in the wake of Russia’s ...

The new book by Witold Szablowski features the chefs who were expected to prepare sumptuous meals for Russian leaders — and keep them from being poisoned. By Jennifer Szalai It is the disintegration ...

Poland’s foreign ministry has criticised Russia for distorting history, following comments by a senior Russian official ...

After Vladimir Lenin died in January 1924, Moscow's Red Square became the site of a series of block-shaped structures made to house the embalmed corpse of the Soviet founder. 1 Lenin’s mausoleum ...

Polish Foreign Minister Radosław Sikorski responded on Wednesday to Russian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Maria Zakharova's ...

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The ties between Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church were tested twice this week – by coincidence, on the same day, April 20 – and with two very different outcomes. In an astounding victory ...

El movimiento MAGA utiliza ideas de la izquierda para destruir a la izquierda. By David Brooks MAGA is using left ideas to destroy the left. By David Brooks The new book by Witold Szablowski features ...