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 ...

Vladimir Lenin (Soviet propaganda poster). (NA) Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state.

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 ...