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Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state. While Lenin's successor Joseph Stalin has few modern Western ...

See what sparked the fight. In this Jan. 2009 file photo, lookalikes of two Vladimir Lenins, left, and a Josef Stalin, right, speak near Red square in Moscow. Alexey Sazonov/AFP/Getty Images MOSCOW -- ...

After Stalin got rid of Trotsky, though Trotsky was still influencing Soviet politics through writing and publishing articles ...

MOSCOW -- Busts of the Soviet dictator Josef Stalin and the founder of the Soviet Union Vladimir Lenin have been unveiled in downtown Moscow. In all, seven busts of Soviet leaders, also including ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin delivers a speech during a rally to support his bid in the upcoming presidential election, at Luzhniki Stadium in Moscow, Russia March 3, 2018. Sputnik/Alexei Nikolsky ...

MOSCOW—In the shadow of the Kremlin, Joseph Stalin and Vladimir Lenin clashed over how to divvy up the spoils of their little enterprise. Lenin felt he wasn’t getting a fair share, while Stalin’s ...

On November 1, 1961, Lenin’s tomb disgorged Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin’s embalmed remains. After his death in March 1953, Stalin’s body was displayed next to that of Bolshevik founder Vladimir Ilych ...