1 Lenin’s mausoleum (right) on Red Square in October 1962. 2 Bolsheviks at the opening to a memorial relief on the Kremlin walls. 3 The statue of a worker on Red Square photographed in the 1920s.

At the edge of Moscow’s Red Square, by the walls of the Kremlin, stands a stone mausoleum that is home to the preserved body of Vladimir Lenin, the founding father of the Soviet Union.

Since his death in 1924, Lenin's mummified body has been on public display beneath a glass case at a mausoleum in Red Square. His death threw the communist state into national grief. It is ...

Lenin and the Leagues of Struggle… this could be a bibliophile’s version of Lenin’s Tomb! Additionally, the darkened hall ...

Lenin's embalmed corpse is one of the biggest attractions in Moscow, drawing a mix of tourists and communists to his tomb. But most Russians agree now, a century after his death, it's time for ...

Standing beside the Tomb of Lenin, Joseph Stalin used to watch thousands upon thousands of bright-cheeked Red soldiers, male & female, marching smartly past Moscow’s Red Square on May Day.

After all, no matter how Moscow and Peking interpret their Lenin, no matter what they read in that polished marble of his tomb, he is still the man who said: “We are all Chekists.” ...

Skilled laborers worked day and night to complete the jet black Lenin Tomb in Red Square, Moscow, in time for May Day celebrations. It was reported that there is every indication that this tomb ...

THE LETTERS OF LENIN—Translated & edited by Elizabeth ... In Russia, where Vladimir Ulianov’s tomb is Moscow’s most sacred sight, three volumes of his letters have been published.