In January 1981, Yeltsin was awarded the Order of Lenin, the Soviet Union's highest decoration, for "services to the Communist Party and the state...

Rand went no further than Lenin, a layman in philosophy though educated at the time. The complex mechanism of forming ideas about the world...

A great collaborator of Trotsky and Lenin after Stalin came to power, he was executed in the so-called Great Purge because Stalin considered him...

On April 16, 1917, Lenin arrived in Petrograd (the new name of St. Petersburg since August 1914), where a crowd.... was waiting for him.

On May 15, employees of the Soviet government headquarters in the Kremlin, hidden behind window curtains, watched as a car drove away, into which on a stretcher...

After his death, Leninism gave rise to various schools of thought, including Marxism-Leninism and Trotskyism, with Stalin and Trotsky, respectively, competing...

Lenin's cooperative plan envisaged the development of all forms of cooperatives, from the simplest - consumer and supply-marketing - to various kinds of production cooperatives,...

Plekhanov, the founder of Russian Marxism, said that by dissolving the Constituent Assembly the Bolsheviks had established a dictatorship "not of the working people, but of the band." The first thing Lenin...

Lenin did not believe in "bourgeois democracy" and therefore developed a theory that proposed replacing national parliaments as the representation of popular sovereignty by...

Lenin's involvement in the Russian Revolution led, among other things, to the fall of the Russian Empire. The Provisional Government subsequently took power, but eventually in...