It was 80 years ago this month that James Burnham’s article titled “Lenin’s Heir” appeared in Partisan Review. It was the top ...

And to certify this, Lenin, when he fell sick, offered to make him vice-president of the Council of People's Commissars -- offered, that is, to designate Trotsky before the world as his successor, an ...

The following interview was conducted as a part of the documentary program Yanks for Stalin concerning American ... role in the 1920s-30s? Why did Lenin like him so well? Why was he the single ...

He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...

A long and bitter conflict between Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin over who would succeed Vladimir Lenin as the Soviet leader culminated on this day in 1928 when Stalin exiled Trotsky to Siberia ...

How Marx would have reacted, had he seen to what use his ideas were put by the likes of Lenin, Stalin and Mao, will remain one of history's intriguing unanswered questions. The philosopher ...