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 ...

What did Vladimir Lenin really think of Joseph Stalin? Explore the critical letters, personal doubts, and final political testament that reveal Lenin’s deep concerns about Stalin’s character and his ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New ...

Socialism or Communism was looked upon as a step which developed out of bourgeois democracy -- a fulfilment of democracy which would come in spite of the bourgeoisie. When he arrived in Russia in 1917 ...

It was pre-eminently the argument that communism is so obviously desirable that the cost of its establishment must not be counted; and the methods to that end were drawn from the system inherited by ...

The first attempt to install communism occurred in Russia in 1917, as Vladimir Lenin’s initial promise of peace, land and bread quickly devolved into terror, collectivization, famine and civil ...

It founded the Soviet Union on former Imperial Russian territory and attempted to put communist theory into practice. Lenin had developed the Marxist theory of vanguardism before the Bolshevik ...

Beginning soon after Vladimir Lenin’s arrival at the Finland Station ... Anyone, that is, but the members of the American Communist Party. “Many of us were easily deceived,” noted Herbert ...