IF all the political figures during the last century, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Lenin, casts the largest and most lingering historical shadow. Without the revolution he set into motion, ...

LENIN: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror. By Victor Sebestyen. Pantheon. 592 pages. $35. "Lenin: The Man, the Dictator, and the Master of Terror" is one ...

Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet ...

A full century since seizing the reigns of the Russian state from the grip of a weak cabinet and an ousted royal dynasty, Vladimir Lenin can still draw a crowd in Russia's capital, Moscow. But the ...

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Before the opening of the Second World Congress of the Communist International (July 19-August 7, 1920) [which met on the first day in Petrograd but subsequently in Moscow], Lenin prepared a draft ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Olga Ulyanova, the niece of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin who campaigned for his embalmed body to stay in a mausoleum on Moscow's Red Square, died on Friday in the Russian ...