It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top ...

A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet leader culminated on this day in 1928 when Stalin exiled Trotsky to Siberia ...

You cannot rule Russia without a secret police.” After his death Lenin was sanctified by Stalin. Joseph Stalin has gone a long way toward deifying himself while alive. No flattery is too ...

Joseph Stalin was born in Georgia ... 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 ...

How did Stalin get away with murder? Stalin’s name meant "man of steel" and he lived up to it. He oversaw the war machine that helped defeat Nazism and was the supreme ruler of the Soviet Union ...

A call to remove the names of Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin from the flags of Marxism and put them on trial. After the fall of the Leninist program, events proved that the Leninist program did not lead to ...

Soviet leader Joseph Stalin first heard officially from the ... Within five years of Lenin's death in 1924, Stalin had managed to firmly entrench himself in the role of indisputable ruler of ...