A century ago, Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, who kept his underground nom de guerre, Lenin, had achieved all that a revolutionary could wish. After his Bolshevik Party seized power he was the most ...

In September 1917, Russia’s collapse was imminent. Unbeknown even to the Bolsheviks, they were poised to stage the second Russian Revolution — tragically, the decisive moment that set that great ...

In April 1917, a sealed train crossed wartime Europe from Switzerland to Petrograd (formerly St. Petersburg). Inside was Vladimir Ilyich Lenin, a revolutionary exile whose ideas were marginal, whose ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. Not long after the 1924 death of the founder ...