(AP) BALTIMORE - A doctor says stress, family medical history or possibly even poison led to the death of Vladimir Lenin, debunking a popular theory that a sexually transmitted disease debilitated the ...

Today marks the 89th death anniversary of Russian politician, revolutionary and political theorist Vladimir Ilyich Lenin (1870-1924). Lenin is arguably one of history's most influential leaders. His ...

The ties between Vladimir Putin and the Russian Orthodox Church were tested twice this week – by coincidence, on the same day, April 20 – and with two very different outcomes. In an astounding victory ...

It was a roughly hundred years ago today that Vladimir Ilyich “Volodya” Lenin departed this world, having set the politics for the rest of the 20th century and possibly beyond. This time a century ago ...

Miasnikov's response to Lenin's letter criticizing Miasnikov's activities in the Perm region. Much like the activities that ...

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The NKNews web site, which monitors developments in the secretive state, has reported that the austere images of two of the founding fathers of communism were first taken down in the summer but have ...

Historians have long agreed that Russian revolutionary Vladimir Ilyich Lenin suffered a series of three strokes that eventually led to his death. But new evidence has been uncovered that appears to ...

Vladimir Lenin was the leader of the Bolshevik Revolution and a powerful political icon throughout the USSR. In its heyday, Soviet officials erected some 14,000 statues in his honor. But once the ...