This essay by WSWS International Editorial Board Chairman David North was originally published on April 22, 2020, on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of Lenin’s birth. Today marks the 150th ...

The founder of the Soviet Union died in 1924, but his embalmed body remains on display in a country that doesn’t know how to let go of its past. Last Sunday, upon waking up, I reached for my phone and ...

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 ...

Responding to Dan La Botz’s “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism”, Anthony Teso writes that what we need is neither a Lenin cult ...

This short tells a story about what would happen if Lenin came back, and tried to revive the Soviet Union? With Lenin coming ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Painted Matryoshka dolls, also known as Russian nesting dolls, depicting Vladimir Lenin and Vladimir Putin. The centenary of ...

Wonder Land: If you were an adversary looking at a U.S. uncertainty about its global leadership, what would you do? Answer: Up the ante—which is exactly what Iran, Russia and others are doing. Images: ...

One of his books is simply entitled “Russia,” where he examines the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the Bolshevik takeover of that country. The book, as you would expect, contains much information ...

Later in this issue, Gary Saul Morson writes about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago. Much of that book is devoted to the details of the dehumanizing brutality of the Stalinist ...

Jan. 21 (UPI) --On this date in history: In 1793, French King Louis XVI was executed in Paris, ending more than a thousand years of continuous French monarchy. In 1861, Mississippi Sen. Jefferson ...