Lenin's Critique of Global Capitalism Excerpt from Introduction to International Political Economy by David N. Balaam and Michael Veseth, 2nd ed., 2001, pp. 76-78.

Lenin's Critique of Global Capitalism Excerpt from Introduction to International Political Economy by David N. Balaam and Michael Veseth, 2nd ed., 2001, pp. 76-78.

WE LIVE in a time of planning -- even of planned history. History planned means history annulled. Moscow now dictates that the revolution of October 1917 had quite different authors and heroes from ...

Such links may persist for decades. A 2022 opinion survey by state-run polling agency VTsIOM found that 29% of Russians believed Lenin’s influence would fade so much that in 50 years he would be ...

Russian President Vladimir Putin on Thursday slammed Vladimir Lenin, the Russian Bolshevik leader, for planting ideas that led to the collapse of the Soviet Union, the Interfax news agency reports ...

Lenin died on Jan. 21, 1924, at age 53, severely weakened by three strokes. His widow, Nadezhda Krupskaya, wanted him to be buried in a conventional grave.

Ted Widmer writes about Lenin’s train ride to St. Petersburg on the eve of the Russian Revolution and the establishment of the U.S.S.R.

Vladimir Lenin has been gone for a century, but the evil he did lives on. The first leader of the Soviet Union died on Jan. 21, 1924, in the Moscow-area village of Gorki, after repeated strokes.