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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Russian revolutionary leader Vladimir Ilyich Lenin shown making a speech in Moscow. There is a certain logic to what President Donald Trump is doing, a logic most identified with a political ...

He invented a new name for Vladimir Lenin. Sign up for How To Read This Chart, a weekly data newsletter from Philip Bump Well, not a new name as such but, apparently a new pronunciation.

Putin himself appears inclined to keep Lenin at arm’s length, even aiming some darts at him. In a speech three days before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Putin dismissed its sovereign status as ...

In a speech three days before the 2022 invasion of Ukraine, Putin dismissed its sovereign status as an illegitimate holdover from Lenin's era, when it was a separate republic within the Soviet Union.