In the midst of this, there was the Russian Revolution of 1905 – and Stalin met Lenin for the first time. From there, Stalin tussled with the law, lambasted the ruling powers, and was ultimately ...

After his death, Stalin created the myth. Fortunately, archives have been opened in Russia, in which there is a lot of Lenin’s correspondence. These letters suggest a very different figure from ...

If Russians are gripped by a yearning for an imaginary past, they will not fight for a better future.

Lenin’s place in the Soviet hagiology, however, was not equally secure; he was becoming a mere peg on which to hang verbal votive offerings to Russian nationalism and to Stalin. Comrade Pompadour.

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...

By the time of his death in 1924, Lenin had created a one-party State and an elaborate system of control. Under Joseph Stalin, the pace of change accelerated as he sought to convert the country ...

By 1945, Stalin had already established himself as a brutal tyrant capable of inflicting terrible suffering on the Soviet people. Within five years of Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin had managed to ...

How Marx would have reacted, had he seen to what use his ideas were put by the likes of Lenin, Stalin and Mao, will remain one of history's intriguing unanswered questions. The philosopher ...