In the years after the end of World War I, there were movements of both political and cultural revolt, launched by a new ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the ... that the world must endure on the road to communism. According to Lenin, "Monopoly is ...

Bust of Vladimir Lenin, Leader of the 1917 Russian Communist Revolution This bust was the centrepiece of a monument erected in 1942 by Finsbury Council in London. It was designed by the Russian ...

Learn about the downfall of the Romanov dynasty and the evolution of Lenin's Ulyanov family, the Bolsheviks, communism, the notorious Rasputin, rumors of cannibalism and acute poverty during the ...

foreign powers lacked resources or troops to spare Neither the fear of communism, nor the desire to protect Russian autocracy was strong enough to keep Western powers committed to involvement in ...

In July-October 1926, Kamenev and Trotsky were expelled from the Politburo, and in November 1927 Trotsky and Zinoviev were expelled from the Russian Communist Party. In December, all supporters of ...