There has been a lot of debate over whether or not recent Russian history has been somewhat cyclical in nature.

Alexander Dugin, a Russian far-right philosopher, has pushed forward the debate to bury Lenin's body to make way for Putin's.

For several years Bogdanov had been experimenting in transferring blood between people, including his wife, various students – and even Lenin’s sister. Bogdanov was no crank. He was one of the great ...