He adopts the name 'Stalin' which means 'steel' in Russian. He is arrested on a number of occasions and exiled to Siberia in 1910. Lenin organises the Russian Revolution and promises “peace ...

he was the man behind the scenes, working on the newspaper and helping coordinate the coup at the center of the revolution. While Lenin took power at first, Stalin was building his own power in ...

Lenin’s place in the Soviet hagiology, however, was not equally secure; he was becoming a mere peg on which to hang verbal votive offerings to Russian nationalism and to Stalin. Comrade Pompadour.

When discussing the 1917 revolution, and subsequent arguments between Stalin and Lenin about how the USSR should be formed, "Stalin is the good guy" in Putin's version of history, said Latvian ...

A rotting railway bridge in the Siberian outback A punishment cell for prisoners A guard’s watchtower in autumn forest These are some of the ruins of Josef Stalin’s abortive “Transpolar ...

After the death of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, a sarcophagus with his embalmed body was placed next to Lenin's sarcophagus on 9 March 1953. The inscriptions "LENIN" and "STALIN" were made on the ...

After the shock of Stalin’s death in 1953 ... to the more traditional communist agenda of the Bolsheviks under Lenin (who led the October Revolution in 1917). Khrushchev’s ‘Secret Speech ...