0ne evening last year I waited on a downtown Moscow street corner to meet a friend. It was after 9:00 P.M. and a bitter November wind made me take refuge behind a huge canvas portrait of Lenin, ...

He was a hugely energetic ­artist, a one-man Soviet cultural industry: poet, playwright, actor, graphic designer, propagandist, even a writer of jingles. A well-known image of him, a photomontage by ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... An imposing portrait of Vladimir Ilyich Lenin greets visitors to San Rafael’s Museum of International Propaganda. The founder of the Soviet Union is merely ...

Famous mausoleum set to close for two years Officials say structural repair work is needed Large lines of Russians form to see Lenin's body MOSCOW, June 10 (Reuters) - Russians are flocking to catch ...

Over the weekend, authorities in Kyrgyzstan’s second city, Osh, dismantled Central Asia’s tallest statue of Vladimir Lenin. Installed in 1975, the 75-foot statue’s removal, 34 years after the collapse ...

Authorities in the second-largest city in Kyrgyzstan, Osh, have removed a towering statue of Vladimir Lenin thought to be the tallest of the revolutionary Soviet leader in Central Asia. The 23-meter ...

Lenin Peak, a towering giant in the Pamirs, has attracted climbers for decades. We examine its first ascents (one from the south and one from the north) as well as two expeditions that ended in ...

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 ...

It turns out that Vladimir Lenin and REM were right. Francis Fukuyama was wrong. In 1921, during the Soviet Union’s New Economic Policy period, Lenin is supposed to have exclaimed that “The ...

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