Vladimir Lenin (Soviet propaganda poster). (NA) Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state.

In a statement that has sparked both criticism and ridicule on social media, an academic aligned with the regime acknowledged ...

Lenin spent his adult life agitating for and leading revolutionary communist activities in Russia. This culminated in the 1917 October Revolution, which brought Lenin's Bolshevik faction to power.

The first attempt to install communism occurred in Russia in 1917, as Vladimir Lenin’s initial promise of peace, land and bread quickly devolved into terror, collectivization, famine and civil ...

January marked the 100th anniversary of Lenin’s death. Colorado Arts and Sciences Magazine recently spoke with Hutchinson about the leader’s legacy in Russia and its former republics, why leaders ...

Lenin at his desk, 1918. In formulating this relationship, Lenin traced the evolution of the forms of consciousness among Russian workers in the 1860s and 1870s, from the primitive destruction of ...

Communism is an ideology that advocates a classless system in which the means of production are owned communally. Prominent examples include China and the Soviet Union.

Beginning soon after Vladimir Lenin’s arrival at the Finland Station in St. Petersburg in 1917 and wrapping up not long after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the Soviet Union was a powerful ...