Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov (22 April 1870 – 21 January 1924), better known by his alias Lenin, was a Russian revolutionary, politician, and political theorist. He served as head of government of Soviet ...

Two men share a cramped Buenos Aires cell at the height of Argentina’s military dictatorship, though only one makes any effort at conversation. Luis Molina (Tonatiuh) is an unceasing chatterbox, ...

By Guy Faulconbridge MOSCOW, April 24 (Reuters) - President Vladimir Putin has ordered Russia's Federal Security Service's spy academy to carry the name of "Iron Felix" Dzerzhinsky, the founder of the ...

“All the old crap of the thirties is coming back again — the sh-t about the ‘class line,’ the ‘role of the working class,’ the ‘trained cadres,’ the ‘vanguard party,’ and the ‘proletarian dictatorship ...

The South African Communist Party is not a shadow of what it used to be up to 20 years ago, and even 15 years ago, or even ten years ago, yet it has never exercised more blatant power over events in ...

Will Kenton is an expert on the economy and investing laws and regulations. He previously held senior editorial roles at Investopedia and Kapitall Wire and holds a MA in Economics from The New School ...

The extremely conditional form in which Lenin invoked the right to self-determination was spelled out in his 1913 work on the subject. The fact that he did not endow this right with some eternal or ...

Pete Rathburn is a copy editor and fact-checker with expertise in economics and personal finance and over twenty years of experience in the classroom. Investopedia / Paige McLaughlin Communism is a ...

As a new Bangladesh under Tarique Rahman spreads its net of global connections, it seems paradoxical to recall that one of ...

Paul Le Blanc engages in a critical dialogue with Dan La Botz’s “Goodbye to Lenin and Leninism,” arguing we should continue ...

History does not repeat, but it often rhymes. Gilles Dauvé draws out the uncanny resemblance between the French electoral ...

At a time when America struggled -- often violently -- to sort out the competing claims of democracy and individual gain, Carnegie championed both. He saw himself as a hero of working people, yet he ...