On his deathbed, Lenin attempted to ensure unified leadership within his party. After his death in 1924, Lev Trotsky, his ...

One hundred years after his death, Vladimir Lenin has been largely forgotten in Russia – Copyright AFP GREG BAKER For almost a century after his death, Vladimir ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin, the leader of the Russian Revolution, died in 1924, 100 years ago this year. But for all that time, his body has (allegedly) not decayed but remains on display for public viewing ...

On January 21, 1924, Lenin, historic leader of the Bolshevik revolution, died. He was the man who turned the Russia of the ...

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.” Rosguardia, or ...

In Moscow it was the anniversary of Lenin’s death. The city smoked with the cold. From the frozen Moscow River, from the Kremlin, and the Cathedral of St. Basil, a vapor rose, clouding the skies and ...

When Lenin died in 1924, so many Russians filed past his bier that a Soviet leader asked: “Could we not make a semi-permanent thing of it?” Professors Boris Zbarsky and Vladimir Vorobyev went to work, ...

Almost 94 years after his death and a quarter century after the fall of the Soviet Union, Vladimir Lenin’s mummified body continues to be displayed in a mausoleum on Red Square in Moscow. Though the ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - The embalmed corpse of Vladimir Lenin has lain in a mausoleum on Red Square since his death in 1924 but now, a century after the revolution he spearheaded, legislation designed to ...

The ideology that Lenin championed and spread over a vast territory is something of a sideshow in modern Russia. The Communist Party, although the largest opposition grouping in parliament, holds only ...