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Vladimir Lenin

February 2024

  • train on bridge with snowy mountains in distance

    Rail journey of the month
    Rail route of the month: Slavic magic on a gentle trip to Zakopane, Poland

    Our slow travel expert discovers the legacy of popes and revolutionaries on a trip south from Kraków to the resort town in the Tatra Mountains

January 2024

  • Illustration of Lenin in heroic pose for Soviet propaganda poster.

    ‘Angel or antichrist’: Russia grapples with Lenin’s legacy 100 years after death

    Vladimir Putin blames leader of 1917 revolution for his woes in Ukraine but remains unable to diminish his towering legacy

November 2023

  • U.S. Soldiers Fighting Bolsheviks during Winter in Northern Russia, circa 1919<br>DYE3KW U.S. Soldiers Fighting Bolsheviks during Winter in Northern Russia, circa 1919

    A Nasty Little War review – the west’s chaotic campaign to undo the Russian Revolution

    Journalist Anna Reid’s thrilling history throws much-needed light on the dark, bloody and sometimes absurd attempt to overthrow the Bolsheviks by the US, Britain and others

September 2022

  • Margaret Thatcher Heseltine John Major Brian Mawhinney Tory conference 1995 conservative Prime Minister<br>BAP3GB Margaret Thatcher Heseltine John Major Brian Mawhinney Tory conference 1995 conservative Prime Minister

    Book of the day
    Personality and Power by Ian Kershaw review – follow the leader… for good or ill

    The great historian’s analyses of a dozen 20th-century democrats and dictators are individually cogent but his conclusions tend to the obvious

January 2022

  • Leon Trotsky, circa 1924.

    From the Guardian archive
    Leon Trotsky dismissed from the Russian Communist party – archive, 1925

    20 January 1925: The ‘old guard’ deemed him and his allies as working against all the canons of Bolshevism

May 2021

  • A clip from State Funeral

    ‘It’s impossible to take your eyes off this infinitely dear face’: the startling film about Stalin’s funeral

    Crafted from footage locked for years in an archive, Sergei Loznitsa’s State Funeral focuses on the motivations of the mourners who lived under the brutal regime

February 2021

  • Cold war relics from the KGB Espionage Museum on display for the auction in Beverly Hills, California.

    Brexiters buy KGB artefacts for ‘museum of communist terror’

    Portrait of Lenin and spy tools among items snapped up at auction by group planning UK exhibition

January 2021

  • Communist Party supporters walk towards the mausoleum of the Russian communist revolutionary

    Communist party supporters celebrate Vladimir Lenin – in pictures

    Russian communists mark the 97th anniversary of Lenin’s death during commemorations in Red Square in Moscow

September 2020

  • Siegfried at Oper Leipzig … Wagnerism: Art and Politics in the Shadow of Music revisits the composer’s political beliefs.

    Richard and the revolutionaries: why did lefties love Wagner?

    His antisemitism made him a far-right icon. So what attracted reds and radicals from Lenin to George Bernard-Shaw to the tumultuous sounds of Hitler’s favourite composer?

August 2020

  • Simon Tisdall

    How should Europe respond now its American ally has turned hostile?

    Simon Tisdall
    As trusted friends join the ranks of predators, it could be time to take a tougher line – soft power is no longer enough

July 2020

  • People enter Lenin’s Mausoleum in Moscow’s Red Square.

    Lenin's tomb reopens as Russia rushes to return from lockdown

    Queues outside Red Square mausoleum are latest sign life in Moscow is getting back to normal

June 2020

  • Vladimir Ilich Lenin, Bolshevik leader, Gorki, Russia, 1922.

    From the Guardian archive
    An interview with Lenin: views on the tactics of English socialists - archive, 1920

  • The Lenin statue due to be unveiled in Gelsenkirchen

    Lenin statue to be unveiled in Germany despite legal fight

April 2020

  • A figures of Vladimir Lenin seen inside a closed shop.

    Brief letters
    Lessons from Lenin to get through this crisis

    Brief letters: Easter Sunday solidarity | One Step Forward, Two Steps Back | Record hole in ozone layer | Due South | Have slots and have nots | Play sand profiteering

March 2020

  • BIO-LENIN-COMMUNISM<br>Vladimir Ilyich Ulianov (1870-1924) better known as Lenin (6th-R) addresses his supporters celebrating in October1918 in Moscow the first anniversary of Bolshevik revolution. Lenin led in October 1917 the communist revolution and became head of the first Soviet government. (Photo credit should read /AFP/Getty Images)

    First Lenin statue in western Germany to be erected after heated battle

    Victory for Gelsenkirchen’s leftist party MLPD after city authorities tried to halt installation

December 2018

  • Sylvia Pankhurst

    Tributes are due to Sylvia Pankhurst and Gertrude Bell

    Letters: Sylvia Pankhurst’s political life is celebrated by Ian Bullock, while James Hutchinson suggests how Gertrude Bell could be honoured

March 2018

  • Marine Le Pen

    Way to beat far right is to engage – and expose their dangerous views

    Letters: Attempts to ignore the far right have led to the present situation, Michael Meadowcroft writes. Brian Wilson offers a warning on presenting your own view as the correct one. Roger Fisken says free speech should never be curtailed

December 2017

  • Nowa Huta steelworks entrance, built in the Soviet era of Polish history<br>BXGREE Nowa Huta steelworks entrance, built in the Soviet era of Polish history

    On the radar
    Kraków’s Lenin Steelworks: a rare view of a socialist realist gem

    The interior of the plant in Kraków’s utopian socialist new town is preserved in all its 1950s glory, a fascinating window on Soviet-era design

November 2017

  • Richard Godwin

    Young people aren’t Stalinists – they just wonder what fairness might look like

    Richard Godwin
  • Joseph Stalin<br>Soviet leader Joseph Stalin reports to the 8th All-Union Congress of Soviets on the draft Constitution of the USSR. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    ‘Why the response to the centenary is muted’ – the Russian Revolution and its legacy

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