2. “They built another towering monument, to Stalin.” The monument in question was to Lenin, not Stalin. 3. “We are starting to get an idea of Soviet design — or lack thereof.” ...

Lenin and Stalin were myths, invincible supermen in whose honor songs and poems were composed, films made, and gifts sent from all over the world.

Lurie says that Stalin sent a top-secret note to the Politburo in 1923 claiming that Lenin himself asked to be put out of his misery, but later said he couldn't go through with it — apparently ...

As I wrote last month, this is a staged show trial worthy of Vladimir Lenin who developed the technique (later used to great effect by Josef Stalin) while creating the Soviet dictatorship.

Lenin laid out the theory; Stalin perfected the model; but Putin has given it a 21st-century makeover, jettisoning Marxist economics, appealing to “traditional values” against Western ...

Lenin led the Bolshevik Revolution that established seven decades of Soviet rule, while Stalin succeeded him, purging millions of citizens but leading the USSR to victory in the Second World War.

The way preeminent military historian Antony Beevor sees it, Mr. Putin is a “dangerous beast” who is trying to undo the mistakes of Lenin and Stalin by erasing Ukraine’s independence ...

The publisher then wrote to Orwell, saying: "If the fable were addressed generally to dictators and dictatorships at large then publication would be all right, but the fable does follow, as I see now, ...