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 ...

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 place of pilgrimage for ...

The crisis, when, according to all possible calculations, Lenin had to give way or be broken, began late at night on April 16, ... There they waited with a bouquet and speeches for Lenin.

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.

Social media is touched by an Australian father’s giving-away speech of a lifetime that he delivered at his daughter’s wedding. Jamie Ross, a Melbourne videographer, shared on Instagram the ...