The inscriptions "LENIN" and "STALIN" were made on the mausoleum. On 30 October 1961, the 22nd Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union established that "serious violations of Lenin's ...

The poets include Anna Akhmatova, communist Russia’s most regal, tragic and ill-treated writer; Osip Mandelstam, who perished in Stalin ... s version of Lenin’s Tomb! Additionally, the ...

The letter, which has been fiercely disputed, was written by Anna Ulyanova in 1932 to Joseph Stalin, Lenin’s successor following his death in 1924. “He came from a poor Jewish family and was ...