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 the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, a sarcophagus with his embalmed body was placed next to Lenin's sarcophagus on 9 March 1953. The inscriptions "LENIN" and "STALIN" were made on the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Lenin would have said there was no turning point in his life; he would have said that he followed a straight line, undeviatingly, from the dawn of his political consciousness to the moment of his ...

Communists staged their own parade in Moscow, with portraits of Lenin and Stalin. The party is now a pale shadow of its former self. A woman in Belarus poses by a flag with a portrait of Lenin.