Never had Lenin's magnetic grip on the Russian people been more clearly demonstrated ... of people's commissaries are Dzershinsky, Rikoff, Stalin and Kamanev, but it is likely that a triumvirate ...

It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top ...

The Presidium of the Supreme Soviet conferred on Tovarish Stalin the Order of Lenin and gave him the title of “Hero of Socialist Labor.” Shop committees, laborers’ clubs, Soviets ...

In To the Success of Our Hopeless Cause, historian Benjamin Nathans sheds light on how the protest movement reinvented itself ...

Stalin firmly came out against the idea of autonomization so as to avoid nationalities problems. But Lenin preferred to have it his way and the Soviet Union emerged as an alliance of constituent ...

The following interview was conducted as a part of the documentary program Yanks for Stalin concerning ... Did his meeting with Lenin do anything to further his fortunes in Russia?

They feared Russia’s expansion into China as much ... that Lenin was infallible. And if Stalin did stretch Lenin’s principle that Communist parties were not to merge with national-liberation ...

In the midst of this, there was the Russian Revolution of 1905 – and Stalin met Lenin for the first time. From there, Stalin tussled with the law, lambasted the ruling powers, and was ultimately ...

By 1945, Stalin had already established himself as a brutal tyrant capable of inflicting terrible suffering on the Soviet people. Within five years of Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin had managed to ...

Stalin thus is still recognized in Jugoslavia ... according to the principles of Marx, Engels, and Lenin only when immediate Russian national aims are served thereby. He is limited by the pull ...

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...