"We old men may not live to see the battles of the upcoming revolution," Vladimir Lenin, informal leader of the Bolshevik party, said in January 1917. Back then, an émigré in Switzerland ...

Vladimir Ilyich Lenin ushered into the world one of the most brutal dictatorship it has ever seen in the Soviet Union, writes Joachim Starbatty. This year is the centenary of the Bolshevik Revolution.

What did Lenin know of the revolution? How could he possibly understand the power and glory of the tremendous upsurge, which he was now asking the Bolsheviks to cold-shoulder? When he arrived he ...

prompting even Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin to declare Russia in April 1917 “the freest country in the world,” it was the ...

The replacement by a provisional government provided ineffective governance and the platform for the Bolsheviks to seize power in the October revolution. October Revolution - Causes, events ...

It was at this crucial juncture that Germany sent the exiled revolutionary Vladimir ... opposition to Lenin and his Bolsheviks. Lenin speaking in central Moscow. By 1918, the revolution had ...

Andy Warhol’s choice to immortalize Vladimir Lenin might initially ... A figure of unrelenting discipline and vision, Lenin engineered the Bolshevik Revolution, reshaping global power structures ...

The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death ... and denounced both the revered Bolshevik leader and his government for their brutal repressions. He accused Lenin of planting a "time bomb" beneath ...

Dr Edward Thomas JonesSenior Lecturer in Economics, Bangor Business SchoolBangor University Vladimir Lenin, the revolutionary ...

The legacy of Vladimir Lenin, one of the most prominent ... One hundred years ago, the Russia Revolution rocked the world, first with the overthrow of the Tsar in February and then with the ...

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 ...

7, no. 11 on the nature of the bureaucratisation seen in the Russian Revolution. Lenin on 'freedom ... Furthermore freedom of love is… In Lenin's final document, he laments how much of the Bolshevik ...