Vladimir Lenin died over a century ago, on January 21, 1924. Shortly after his death, the Soviet authorities made a decision to embalm the body of the Russian communist revolutionary.

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death on Sunday is expected to be met with silence from the current occupant of the Kremlin. From our morning news briefing to a weekly Good News Newsletter ...

TASS/. There should be no hurry with interring Vladimir Lenin, whose body has been lying in still in a specially built mausoleum on Red Square since his death 93 years ago, Metropolitan Hilarion ...

Vladimir Lenin died on 21 January 1924 at the age of ... the mausoleum was visited by up to 2.3 million people every year. After the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, a sarcophagus with ...

Bust of Vladimir Lenin, Leader of the 1917 Russian Communist Revolution This bust was the centrepiece of a monument erected in 1942 by Finsbury Council in London. It was designed by the Russian ...

Vladimir Ilich Lenin (1870-1924) is best known for his role in the Russian Revolution of 1917 and the founding of the Soviet Union. Lenin symbolized for many people the principles and ideas of the ...

Very short article by KAPD talking about the personality cult of Lenin in Russia. Originally published in "KAZ, 1924, No. 13". Notes from Pankhurst on Lenin's Pamphlet "Left-Wing" Communism: An ...

At the moment of crisis this party was reduced for all practical purposes to a single individual, Vladimir Ilych Lenin, born Ulyanov, who had made Bolshevism, sustained it, preserved its ...

Soviet Union founder Lenin is depicted in a huge portrait A life-size portrait of Soviet Union founder Vladimir Lenin and other paintings from the former state are going up for auction.