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 ...

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 ...

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.

The final two chapters “take up Lenin’s conception of human knowledge and truth” (67) nearly entirely through the text Materialism and Empirio-criticism written in 1909 where Lenin engages a polemical ...

I want to focus on several issues raised by a reading of Werth's text: the role of the French revolution as a model for the Bolsheviks, the role of the praktiki (practitioners) within the Bolshevik ...

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 ...

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.

In 1907, the men who would go on to lead the Russian Revolution met in London for a crucial congress. But the revolutionaries – including Vladimir Lenin, Joseph Stalin, and Leon Trotsky – were nearly ...

While Lenin, hiding in Finland, maintained that the threat of counter-revolution was being exaggerated to force the Bolsheviks into a coalition that would weaken their support, socialists in the ...

Krupskaya--Lenin's partner, confidant and Bolshevik comrade--relays anecdotes and experiences from years of underground and exile organizing through to the heady days of taking power.

Lenin’s supporters come to the meeting fully prepared, with Kronstadt Bolsheviks distributing copies of his pamphlet “On Slogans” to all participants at the congress before the discussion opens.

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.