The Soviet leader's bronze hands are often painted red. Other recent vandalism has symbolized the colors of the Ukrainian flag.

"You're next," said a Russian historian I interviewed in 1993 about the Soviet Union's collapse in late 1991. I was an ...

A museum in Finland was long known as the last museum in Europe dedicated to Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding father of the Soviet Union. While the museum long symbolized the ...

It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New ...

Dr Edward Thomas JonesSenior Lecturer in Economics, Bangor Business SchoolBangor University Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary ...

A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction. Described as "monumental", they will be up for sale at Wotton Auction ...

Lenin’s face is one of the most instantly recognizable symbols of 20th-century political upheaval. A figure of unrelenting discipline and vision, Lenin engineered the Bolshevik Revolution ...

John S. Clarke's great nephew, John Clarke, writes below how a boy from Tyneside rubbed shoulders with iconic figures from history, including the man who freed India from colonial rule and the archite ...

W ho would not want to own a life-size portrait of a rosy-cheeked, grandfatherly Lenin? The painting, among others of Soviet origin and vintage, are up for grabs this week at the Wotton Auction ...