Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

On 25 February 1956, the Soviet leader made a speech in which he called Stalin a dictator who had led a regime of ‘suspicion, fear and terror’ ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a rally to support his bid in the upcoming presidential election, at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia March 3, 2018. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky ...

Statues of Lenin and Stalin, removed from Albania’s streets in the dying days of communism three decades ago, have suddenly reappeared in the garden of a government villa. Not everyone is impressed.

Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Robert Service talks about Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky and their views of communism and totalitarism. Robert Service talks about ...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Vladimir Putin's paternal grandfather worked as a cook for both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin, the president said in a film posted on the internet on Sunday. In the two-hour ...

Lenin’s corpse is not happy. His organs need to be removed, his skin is getting all splotchy, and Stalin needs him to show his face to keep Russians inspired. But Lenin, who was an atheist and a ...

Mother Russia peered out from her turreted home in Moscow, her slate grey eyes narrowed into slits. “Vladimir? Vladimir? Where is that boy?” A buxom woman, she was dressed in plain a peasant dress ...