On 18 September 1964, during a no-confidence motion against his government, India’s former Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri ...

For this drama was played once before. Then, Lenin was god and Stalin the mythmaker; now Stalin is the omnipresent myth and the new chief priest has not yet been ordained. In 1922, Lenin ...

The slow, seemingly piecemeal march of American dictatorship is trampling colleges and law firms and coming for the rest of ...

Yet Lenin, though not exactly devoted to what is called “government by the people,” had a basic confidence in people and in their performance when properly led. Stalin was constitutionally ...

In 1919, Lenin formed the Communist International, COMINTERN. Its stated purpose was to promote Communist revolutions worldwide. Its actual function was to allow the Soviet Union, when caught meddling ...

In the midst of this, there was the Russian Revolution of 1905 – and Stalin met Lenin for the first time. From there, Stalin tussled with the law, lambasted the ruling powers, and was ultimately ...

When discussing the 1917 revolution, and subsequent arguments between Stalin and Lenin about how the USSR should be formed, "Stalin is the good guy" in Putin's version of history, said Latvian ...