Soviet citizens were accustomed to seeing Lenin on postcards and official photos giving speeches or talking to common people. He had another life though, one that the public barely saw. Russia ...

Vladimir Lenin giving a speech in Moscow, Russia, May 5, 1920. (Photo: Grigory Petrovich Goldstein) And, of course, everyone knows that his body is preserved in a mausoleum (in Moscow) and that’s ...

But the citizens of Russia no longer gather in Red Square to hear the leader of the 1917 revolution give a rousing speech, rather they queue for a glimpse of Lenin's inanimate body, embalmed and ...