Explore the critical letters, personal doubts, and final political testament that reveal Lenin’s deep concerns about Stalin’s character and his warnings that were ultimately ignored. More for ...

WE LIVE in a time of planning -- even of planned history. History planned means history annulled. Moscow now dictates that the revolution of October 1917 had quite different authors and heroes from ...

Lenin with his successor, Josef Stalin. Lenin suffered three strokes and died at the young age of 53 in 1923. ... Lenin’s image became ubiquitous on posters, stamps, medals, ...

He makes Stalin out to be Lenin’s right-hand strongman, which he was not, while also creating the illusion that Stalin was capable of nimble ideological disputes with Lenin.

IT IS impossible to understand the essence of the Soviet system without constantly keeping in mind Lenin's psychology. In 1905 Lenin had dreamed and planned a revolution achieved by a minority group ...