In response Lenin sent a telegram the ollowing day to the Bolshevik high up Ephraim Sklyansky saying "organize secret surveillance and surveillance of the behavior of these doctors in order to expose ...

Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Bolshevik Party in Russia, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and a towering political and intellectual figure in the 20th century.

MOSCOW (Reuters) -Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, long a ...

The sailors who fell into Bolshevik hands were swiftly shot or sent to one of the early labor camps that would later become gulags. It is estimated some 2,000 Kronstadt sailors were executed, most ...

Vladimir Lenin was the founder of the Bolshevik Party in Russia, leader of the 1917 Russian Revolution and a towering political and intellectual figure in the 20th century.

Lenin’s Bolsheviks were preparing to abandon the old dictum, “All power to the soviets.” Their vision now, far more authoritarian, was “dictatorship of the proletariat.” ...

This year marks the 100th anniversary of the Bolshevik seizure of power in Russia, an event that determined the course of the entire region and the world. Yet, Russians today seem unsure of what ...

On April 9, 1917, Lenin, his wife Nadezhda Krupskaya, and about 30 other revolutionaries boarded the train in Zurich. The group included Bolsheviks and other socialist activists eager to return to ...

Lenin himself holds some nostalgia for Russians, but little attention on a daily basis. In a 2017 Levada Center poll, most Russians expressed indifference (34 percent), followed by respect (26 ...

Vladimir Lenin, the charismatic leader of the Bolshevik Party, orchestrated a seizure of power in the name of councils, or “soviets,” of workers, peasants, sailors and soldiers.

Foreign lenders initially welcomed the fall of the czar. Then Lenin repudiated Russia’s debt—the biggest sovereign default in history. By Andrew Stuttaford Jan. 22, 2019 6:48 pm ET Share ...