The centenary of Vladimir Lenin's death on Sunday is expected to be met with silence from the current occupant of the Kremlin. But Putin's views on Lenin, the Bolshevik leader and founding father of ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Lenin Peak, a towering giant in the Pamirs, has attracted climbers for decades. We examine its first ascents (one from the south ...

Left parties, notably CPI and CPI(M), commemorated Lenin's death anniversary, highlighting his lasting impact on the ...

LONDON — On May 13, 1907, Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin stood in a London church as the Fifth Congress of the Russian Social Democratic Labor Party planned a revolution. Just 10 years ...

(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 ...

Russian approval of Vladimir Lenin is peaking as the centennial of his rise to power approaches, independent pollster the Levada Center has found. The majority of Russians (56 percent) view the ...

Lenin's Mausoleum is located in Red Square and is probably one of the stranger tourist attractions you'll ever come across. It contains the embalmed body of Vladimir Lenin, a disturbing site that has ...

November will mark the centenary of the Bolshevik coup in St. Petersburg that saw a small sect of radical communists seize control of an empire covering one-sixth of the earth's surface. What followed ...

Senior Correspondent 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 ...

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 ...