Vladimir Lenin (Soviet propaganda poster). (NA) Today is the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Lenin, the first leader of the Soviet Union, the world's first communist state.

The Bolsheviks pursued a clear ideological goal: to eradicate religion and install state atheism across the USSR. Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin believed the only way to fight religion was to ...

While some cite fall of Soviet Union and Lenin’s chequered legacy for China’s low-key response to Lenin’s death centenary, one analyst asserts that Leninism ‘is in the DNA’ of the party.

Vladimir Lenin, the Russian revolutionary and founding leader of the USSR, has long been rumored to have said, "There are decades where nothing happens; and there are weeks where decades happen ...

Russians are flocking to catch what some fear could be a final glimpse of the embalmed body of Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin before his tomb on Moscow's Red Square, long a place of pilgrimage ...