Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding leader of the USSR, has long been rumored to have said, "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen." ...

A long-standing monument to Russian revolutionary Vladimir Lenin lost face after Ukrainian forces pushed into the area. The silver monument in the town of Sudzha, which depicts Lenin standing with ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23 ...

Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia.

Konstantin Stachukov, 37, was arrested in Moscow's Red Square after allegedly hurling a Molotov cocktail at Vladimir Lenin's red-granite tomb.

Vladimir Lenin has been gone for a century, but the evil he did lives on. The first leader of the Soviet Union died on Jan. 21, 1924, in the Moscow-area village of Gorki, after repeated strokes.

The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin believed the only way to fight religion was to ...

The grand hall, within sight of the Kremlin, hosted the funerals of Soviet leaders Vladimir Lenin, Josef Stalin and Leonid Brezhnev. Gorbachev will be given a military guard of honour - but his ...

Kyrgyzstan has taken down a huge statue of the revolutionary Soviet leader Vladimir Lenin, which was thought to be the tallest in Central Asia. First erected when Kyrgyzstan was part of the Soviet ...

In Osh, Kyrgyzstan, authorities have dismantled a 75-foot statue of Vladimir Lenin, once believed to be the tallest of its kind in Central Asia.

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia.