Let it be admitted that Vladimir Ilyich Lenin was consequential. One of the most consequential people in history. He was essential to the Bolshevik Revolution, which overthrew the feckless liberals ...

Discover Lenin's role in the Bolshevik Revolution, his leadership's impact on the USSR, and the controversial legacy of his ...

THE LETTERS OF LENIN—Translated & edited by Elizabeth Hill & Doris Mudie— Harcourt, Brace ($4). Of the thousands of letters written by Vladimir Ilich Ulianov in his 54-year life, about 1,000 are left.

THE LIFE OF LENIN by Louis Fischer. 703 pages. Harper & Row. $10. THE LIFE AND DEATH OF LENIN by Robert Payne. 672 pages. Simon & Schuster. $8.50. LENIN: THE COMPULSIVE REVOLUTIONARY by Stefan Possony ...

Later in this issue, Gary Saul Morson writes about Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s masterwork The Gulag Archipelago. Much of that book is devoted to the details of the dehumanizing brutality of the Stalinist ...

In 1887, the future leader of the Russian revolution, Vladimir Ulyanov (later Lenin), was 17 when his 21-year-old brother was hanged for his role in a bungled attempt to assassinate Czar Alexander III ...

Yesterday marked the 100th anniversary of the death of Vladimir Ilyich Ulyanov, known as Lenin. Lenin ranks among the most remarkable figures in world history. He was the theoretical and political ...

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Loren Goldner reviews John Marrot's "The October Revolution in Prospect and Retrospect: Interventions in Russian and Soviet History" in Insurgent Notes #7. This is a very important book, one of the ...