"We old men may not live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré in Switzerland ...

What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...

A few days later Putin denounced Lenin and the Bolsheviks for ... Deputy Mayor Vladimir Putin. Now, on the eve of the centenary of the October Revolution that propelled Lenin to power, Putin ...

In this engrossing tour de force, Edelstein ventures across the ancient and modern eras to trace the evolution of revolution as a political idea.

How to make sense of America’s turbulent times? In my role as historian, I tried on period costumes: togas for the death of ...

It was at this crucial juncture that Germany sent the exiled revolutionary Vladimir ... opposition to Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Lenin speaking in central Moscow. By 1918, the revolution had ...

V ladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, better known as Vladimir Lenin, the architect of Russia’s 1917 Bolshevik revolution, politician and political theorist was considered as one of the most significant and ...

Andy Warhol’s choice to immortalize Vladimir Lenin might initially ... A figure of unrelenting discipline and vision, Lenin ...

The radical Left are the Bolsheviks in the Democratic Party, not the Mensheviks. To explain the history, Vladimir Lenin’s Marxist movement in Russia, in the early 20 th century, split into ...

THE LETTERS OF LENIN—Translated & edited by Elizabeth Hill & Doris Mudie— Harcourt, Brace ($4). Of the thousands of letters written by Vladimir ... of the majority (Bolsheviks) in the ...

7, no. 11 on the nature of the bureaucratisation seen in the Russian Revolution. Lenin on 'freedom ... Furthermore freedom of love is… In Lenin's final document, he laments how much of the Bolshevik ...

Lenin's Mausoleum is located in Red Square and is probably one of the stranger tourist attractions you'll ever come across. It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site that ...